Jordan v. Wilkins

WASHINGTON, Circuit Justice.

The objection to the recovery is, that the declaration charges the defendant as bailiff of certain goods belonging to the plaintiff, to make profit of for the plaintiff; and as receiver of certain sums, b.y the hands of A, B and C, being the money of the plaintiff, to whom he was to render an account; and has given in evidence sums of money received by the hands, not of the persons mentioned in the declaration, but of a person not named there; and these sums, so received, not the money of the plaintiff, but the money of the partners, and received on joint account.…