Todd v. Clapp
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Coste ACT against Chauncey F. Clapp and Eunice E. Clark, copartners under the firm name of C. F. Clapp & Co., on an account annexed for goods sold to them in September, 1873. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Allen, J., at February term 1875, the jury returned a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiffs alleged exceptions, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
This is an action to recover the price of goods sold to a firm which consisted of the defendants, one of whom, Chauncey F. Clapp, was an infant, and the other a married woman, at the time of the sale. It appeared in evidence that the plaintiffs brought this suit before the infant became of age, and attached upon the writ, among other goods, a portion of the goods sold; that the attached goods were sold at auction by consent of all the parties, and were bid off by Chauncey Clapp, the grandfather and guardian of the infant defendant, and that sometime after the infant defendant became of age he…
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