Jacques v. Edgell

This was a suit instituted by the plaintiffs in error against the defendants to recover the profits on certain drafts drawn on New York and sold in St. Louis at a premium by the defendants, the said drafts having been purchased in New Orleans with money arising from the proceeds of a lot of pork belonging to plaintiffs and sold by the agents of defendants in New Orleans.

*77The petition sets out that on the 31st of' September, 1860, defendants agreed with plaintiffs to sell for them at St. Louis, Keokuk, or New Orleans, the product of 2,200 hogs, then packed and in the hands of Cleghain, Batly &…