Hardeman & Hamilton v. Ford
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Dooly Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers. April Term, 3852. This was an action to recover back money, advanced by the plaintiffs, Hardeman & Hamilton, as cotton factors, to Ford, the defendant. Plaintiffs proved-the advancement of the money as charged in their account, and that they had sold twenty-three bales of cotton for defendant, at 7|-cents, which left a balance due them from defendant.
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In Dooly Superior Court. Tried before Judge Powers. April Term, 3852. This was an action to recover back money, advanced by the plaintiffs, Hardeman & Hamilton, as cotton factors, to Ford, the defendant. Plaintiffs proved-the advancement of the money as charged in their account, and that they had sold twenty-three bales of cotton for defendant, at 7|-cents, which left a balance due them from defendant. They had sold the cotton in New York, March 13, 1848. The defendant introduced Robert G. Ford, who testified that the cotton was stored with plaintiffs in July, 1847; on which they agreed to…
1Opinion of the Court
£y the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The motion for a new trial was properly overruled by the Court below, on the statement of facts contained in this record. The cotton was delivered to the plaintiffs in July, 1847, to be shipped to Savannah, but not to JVew York. The plaintiffs were specially directed by the defendant, not to send his cotton to New York; said “his cotton never should go on the water, as he had suffered once by his cotton going on the water.” The plaintiffs shipped the cotton toNewYork, and it was sold in that market, on the 13th March, 1848, at 7J cents.…
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