Commercial National Bank of Chicago v. Sloman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by tlie defendants, Carl Broederrnann Sloman and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered ■ in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 13th day of.February, 1907, upon the verdict of a. jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office .on the 13th day of February, 1907, denying the defendants’; motion to set aside the verdict.-
1Opinion of the Court
Houghton, J.:
The defendants consigned for cargo from Hamburg, Germany, to shipbrokers at New Orleans, a vessel owned by them.' Upon arriving at that port, upon authority' of the master, certain outfit-tings and port charges, including inland freight charges upon the cargo, were incurred in behalf .of the vessel through the ship: brokers to whom it was consigned.- Upon the vessel being loaded and ready for. sailing, the items of these charges were submitted to the master, who -marked them correct, and to provide for their' payment he drew to his own order and indorsed in blank a draft or note…
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