Suit v. Woodhall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Actions of contract to recover the price of whiskey sold. The two cases were tried together in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J. At the trial the plaintiffs called one Patton as a witness, who testified, among other things not now material, that he was in the service of the plaintiffs during the years 1870 and 1871, with authority from them to travel through the New England States and obtain orders for liquors ; that he had authority from the plaintiffs to receive…
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Actions of contract to recover the price of whiskey sold. The two cases were tried together in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J. At the trial the plaintiffs called one Patton as a witness, who testified, among other things not now material, that he was in the service of the plaintiffs during the years 1870 and 1871, with authority from them to travel through the New England States and obtain orders for liquors ; that he had authority from the plaintiffs to receive orders and agree upon the price of liquors ordered, the terms of payment and the freight, but that he had no authority to…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The court instructed the jury that if the plaintiffs employed an agent who obtained in .Lawrence orders for liquors from the defendants, and sent them to the plaintiffs, who accepted them, and thereupon delivered the liquors ordered to carriers in Kentucky, who transported them to the defendants, the contracts of sale were made and the sales completed in Kentucky, notwithstanding the defendants paid the cost of transportation to Lawrence under agreements with the agent that such cost should, in each case, be deducted from the price. These were all the instructions given upon the question as…
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