Eddy, Jameson & Co. v. Livingston, Kincaid & Co.
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. For statement of the facts, see opinion. The court, at the request of the plaintiffs, gave the following instruction. (See opinion.) To the giving of this instruction the defendants excepted.
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Appeal from St. Louis Circuit Court. For statement of the facts, see opinion. The court, at the request of the plaintiffs, gave the following instruction. (See opinion.) To the giving of this instruction the defendants excepted. The defendants asked the court to give the following instructions : 1. If the money in question was deposited with the defendants to be by them invested in a draft on the east, in order to be remitted to the plaintiffs, that the defendants, in so investing it, were to exercise their discretion as to the kind of draft they should, purchase; that the defendants acted in…
1Opinion of the CourtBat, Judge
Both plaintiffs and defendants were merchants; the former doing business in the city of St. Louis, and the latter in Salt Lake City, Territory of Utah. During the latter part of 1855, a clerk of the defendants, by the name of Voorhis, collected in Salt Lake City for the plaintiffs the sum of $1,500 in coin, and having no means of sending the same to St. Louis, and being unable to procure a bill of exchange, for the reason that there were no bankers or dealers in exchange at Salt Lake City, nor person from whom ex Change could be bought in such sums as the purchaser might desire, deposited…
2Cited by4 opinions
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- King v. Exchange BankMissouri Court of Appeals · 1904
- Briere v. TaylorWisconsin Supreme Court · 1905
- Funkhouser v. InglesMissouri Court of Appeals · 1885