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5 Gustavus Schmidt's Legal Briefs 1827-1904

handle is hein.beal/gvssts0005 and id is 1 raw text is: SUPREME COURT. No. 4870. QARLOS ZAPATA, APPELLEE, '0. WILLIAM R. HODGES, APPELLANT. Plaintiff and Appellee's Brief. Plaintiff claims of the defendant $789 46, with legal interest from the 20th of July 1872, for this, to-wit: That in March 1872, plaintiff, who is a commission merchant, agreed with the defendant to ship to his (plaintiff's) friends in Havana 2700 cross-ties (by a clerical error stated as 2200 in the petition), to be sold in the Island of Cuba for account of the defendant. That accordingly, about the 2d of April 1872, plaintiff paid $75 for the towage from New Orleans to the land- ing ou.the Mississippi river near Kennerville, of the brig on board of which the ties were to be shipped, and also paid the charges for insurance and clearance, and sundry petty expenses amounting to $26 50, and, moreover, advanced to defendant $1350 cash on said shipment. Plaintiff avers that his friends and correspondents in Havana, the firm of (aro Hermanos y Watson, received the said consignment of cross-ties and sold the same at the best rates they were able to obtain therefor; that the said sale netted in Havana $715 77, which, converted into a draft on New Orleans at the then current rate of exchange, gave $698 32, as fully shown by the account sales rendered by the said 9aro Hermanos y Watson and furnished the defendant. That after debiting the defendant with the expenses and sums advanced by plaintiff as aforesaid, as also with the usual

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