Forrestier v. Bordman

(summing up to the jury). The first point made at the bar is, that Williams, the supercargo, had no authority to carry the flour to Batavia and to sell it there, under the terms of his instructions. The voyage contemplated was to several ports of South America, where it was supposed, that the flour might and would be sold, and from hence the vessel was to proceed to India, for a return cargo. .Certainly the instructions, in their terms, did not con*462template any other event than a sale of all the flour at some one or more of the South American ports. It turned out, however, that the flour could…