MASTERS AND SON v. BARREDA AND BROTHER


59 U.S. 489 (1855)

18 How. 489

SOLOMON S. MASTERS AND WILLIAM K. MASTERS, TRADING AS PARTNERS UNDER THE FIRM AND STYLE OF S.S. MASTERS AND SON, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. FREDERICK L. BARREDA AND PHILLIPPE BARREDA, TRADING AS PARTNERS UNDER THE FIRM OF F.L. BARREDA AND BROTHER.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued in this court by Mr. Johnson, for the plaintiffs in error, and by Mr. Carlisle and Mr. Bradley, with whom was Mr. F.L. Smith, for defendants.


Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action of assumpsit brought in the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Virginia, by the defendants in error, against Masters and Son, to recover from them a balance of $77,966.13 arising from the sales of guano, as stated in the bill of particulars, at pages three and four of the record.

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