Ranken v. Deforest
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment entered at a special terra, in favor of the defendants, upon the report of a referee.
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Appeal by the plaintiffs from a judgment entered at a special terra, in favor of the defendants, upon the report of a referee. The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs were partners, merchants and traders, doing business in the city of New-York, under the name, style and firm of Smith, Thurgar & Co.; that in August, 1848, the defendants, William H. Deforest, and Nathaniel Chittenden, who were also merchant copartners, trading and doing business, among other places, at New Orleans, purchased of the plaintiffs a quantity of dry goods and other merchandise, to the amount of $765.20, through one…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Mitchell, J.
The plaintiffs alledge that the defendants bought goods of them, through Anning S. Chittenden. This the defendants deny; and they say that he bought these goods on his own responsibility, and not on the responsibility of the defendants ; and that he was known to the plaintiffs and reputed to be of great wealth, and that the defendants were unknown to the plaintiffs, except as the. persons for whom A. S. Chittenden was purchasing; that he informed the plaintiffs, when he was purchasing, that he was purchasing for the defendants, and that the plaintiffs agreed that he…
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- Porter v. TalcottNew York Supreme Court · 1823
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