Bunnel v. Taintor's administrator
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of account, founded on an express agreement, made between the plaintiff and Taintor, in March, 1810, by virtue of which, as the declaration alleged, they became jointly interested in all the profits, which might or should be made on the purchase and sale of sundry large tracts of land, which had been previously purchased of Dow Smith and others, through the plaintiff’s agency.
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This was an action of account, founded on an express agreement, made between the plaintiff and Taintor, in March, 1810, by virtue of which, as the declaration alleged, they became jointly interested in all the profits, which might or should be made on the purchase and sale of sundry large tracts of land, which had been previously purchased of Dow Smith and others, through the plaintiff’s agency. The cause was tried at New-Haven, August term, 1822, before Peters, J. On the trial, the plaintiff offered to prove, by the deposition of Dow Smith and Luama Welton, and by other parol testimony, that…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The declaration avers, that the plaintiff and the said Taintor, on or about the 1st of March, 1810, became jointly interested in all the profits which might or should be made, on the purchase and sale of sundry large tracts of land, which had been previously purchased of Dow Smith and others, through the plaintiff's agency. The evidence, in support of this allegation, was a contract made between the parties, on or about the 1st of March, in the preceding year, to become equally interested in the profits which might arise from the purchase and sale of certain lands to be…
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