Rand v. Morse

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

In this action the seller of ISO tons of rice on a c. i. f. contract got judgment against the buyer for failure to pay the purchase price. National Rice Mills, a copartnership, of San Francisco, was the seller, and Mississippi Valley Trading & Navigation Company, an unincorporated association, of St. Louis, was the buyer: Its individual members were made defendants!

The law raises a definite implication from the use of the three letters c. i. f. as to the duty of seller in executing the contract. They are used in this contract, 'and their use imposed on the seller the…