Ellett v. Embury & Maurey

The bill in this cause was filed by the complainant against Embury & Maury, cotton factors of the city of Memphis, J. H. W. Steele Company, foreign freight brokers and forwarders, with an office in the city of Memphis, and the Leyland Harrison Steamship Lines of the Kingdom of Great Britain, also with an office and agent in Memphis, for the purpose of collecting from said defendants the sum of $1,228.15, with interest, which amount he was forced to pay to the steamship company *447as freight on 400 hales of cotton shipped from Memphis to Liverpool, England, by reason of an alleged breach of a…