Rice v. Longfellow Bros.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action in the district court for Hennepin county to recover $1,580 for money paid in procuring and shipping two cars of pears as defendant’s agent and for plaintiff’s services. The case was tried before Brooks, J., and a jury, which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff. From an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
START, O. J.
• This court, upon a former appeal herein (78 Minn. 394, 81 N. W. 207), held that the contract which is the subject-matter of this action was one of agency, whereby the plaintiff undertook to buy certain fruit for the defendant. The case was sent down for a new trial, and the plaintiff amended his complaint, alleging that, as the agent of the defendant and by its direction, he purchased at Phoenix, Arizona, two cars of pears, and shipped them to it at Minneapolis, and in so doing paid out for the pears, the freight thereon, and for icing the cars in which'they were shipped $1,380, *155…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Lake City Flouring-Mill Co. v. McVeanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1884
- Rice v. Longfellow Bros.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1899