Means v. Ross, Keen & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiff seeks to recover the sum of four thousand dollars with interest, on the ground that defendants, agents of Latassa & Co., charterers of the ship hereafter named, of which firm he is the receiver, also the assignee, have collected the sum of eight thousand *176seven hundred and thirty-four 45-100 dollars and are indebted for the amount thus collected less charges and commissions.

The firm of Latassa & Co. employed the defendant firm to get a cargo for the British ship Bombay, then bound on a voyage in ballast from Philadelphia to New…