Schmidt & Zeigler, Ltd. v. Le Bourgeois & Bush, Inc.

The defendant company appeals from a judgment condemning it to pay the plaintiff company a large sum of money as damages .for breach of contract to sell and deliver a number of barrels of sugar.

There is no dispute between the parties as to the agreement to sell and the failure to deliver the sugar, the defendant company seeking to escape liability for its default solely on the ground that it acted in the transaction as the broker of J. N. Pharr & Sons, Limited, and not as a principal.

The plaintiff company purchased the sugar from the defendant company through the brokerage firm of Jourdan &…