Crossman v. Lurman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Theodor Gr. Lurman and Benjamin D. Williams, composing the firm of Theodor Gr. Lurman & Co.,, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiffs,, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 25th day of March, 1898, upon the verdict of a jury, and also-from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 29th day of March, 1898, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J. :
On the 17th of July, 1894, the firm of -which the plaintiffs are members sold to the defendants, who are partners in business in Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, 500 bags of coffee, to arrive in New York from Rio de Janeiro by the steamship Catania. By the terms' of the contract half of the coffee was to be of a grade equal in average to about standard No. 8, and the other half to be about equal in average to standard No. 9 of the Coffee Exchange of the city of New York. The manner in which the coffee was to be graded was prescribed in the contract, and it was further provided…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re LurmanNew York Supreme Court · 1895
3Cited by5 opinions
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- Crossman v. LurmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
- Crossman v. LurmanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899