Rapalje v. Emory
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS cause having been argued at large, upon a motion for a new trial, the facts, and arguments were recapitulated, and the opinion of the court delivered in the following terms.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPPEN, President.
—The case was shortly this. Reuben Fairchild, in the year 1775, sailed from New-York, mailer of a vessel belonging to the plaintiff and himself, on a circuitous voyage. He was likewise the factor of the plaintiffs, and had discretionary orders to trade for them and to fell the vessel as well as the cargo. In the course of the voyage he fold both vessel and cargo, and made some remittances to his owners. While he was at St. Eustatius, and when he was about to leave it, he put his affairs into the hands of William Smith, then a merchant there, with power to collect his…
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