St. Louis & Tennessee River Packet Co. v. McPeters
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Laudei'dale Circuit Court. Tried before Hou. H .0. Speake. Action by appellant against the appellee. • The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. Judgment for defendant. cited, Palmer v. Scott cG Co., 68 Ala. 380; State v. Jones, 11 So. Rep. 596; Jones v. State, 65 Miss. 179; Phoenix Ins.
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Appeal from Laudei'dale Circuit Court. Tried before Hou. H .0. Speake. Action by appellant against the appellee. • The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. Judgment for defendant. cited, Palmer v. Scott cG Co., 68 Ala. 380; State v. Jones, 11 So. Rep. 596; Jones v. State, 65 Miss. 179; Phoenix Ins. Go. v. Copeland, 86 Ala. 551; Hunsey v. State, 87 Ala. 121; Ansley v. Bank, 113 Ala. 467. ' cited, Pierce & Baldicin v. Pass tG Go., 1 Port. 232; Gannon v. Lindsay, 85 Aia. 198; 5 Ala. Ill; 87 Ala. 568; Wolf v. State, 79 Ala. 201.
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
— This action is on the common counts by the appellant company, against the defendant, James McPeters, as the surviving partner of James McPeters & Co., a firm composed of defendant and James Hancock, deceased. The plaintiff seeks a recovery upon proof of one of two theories. By the first it is claimed, that the defendant’s firm was the plaintiff’s agent at Florence, Alabama, and as such agent, was charged with the duty of collecting bills for freight due the plaintiff, as a common carrier upon the Tennessee river, and remitting the same to plaintiff at St. Louis, Mo., where the company had…
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