Pim v. Wait

This action is brought to recover damages for negligence or misfeasance about the sale of some coffee which the defendants as brokers undertook to dispose of for the plaintiffs. Upon the trial by jury it appeared that the defendants bargained the coffee to Thompson Bros, at 91 cents per pound, and executed a “sold note,” so called, showing such sale; that afterwards, upon the authority of Thompson Bros., *742who assumed to act for Sherman & Taylor, the defendants canceled the sale to Thompson Bros., and took from them a sold note of the coffee from the plaintiffs to Sherman & Taylor, at 9$ cents,…