Hofferberth v. Duckett
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Charles F. Hofferberth, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in fayor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 27th day of February, 1914, upon a dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court at the close of plaintiff’s case.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is an action to recover moneys alleged to have been collected and received by the defendant for the use and benefit of the plaintiff.
The plaintiff was the president and a director of the Hofferberth-Troy Company which was engaged in the lumber business in Honduras. The defendant was doing business under the name of A. W. Duckett & Co., as a shipbroker. In the month of March, 1907, the Hofferberth-Troy Company, by. the plaintiff as its president, through the defendant, as a broker or agent for the owners, chartered the steamship Cecilia to bring a cargo of mahogany logs from…
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