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BIRGE-FORBES CO. v. HEYE

No. 76.

251 U.S. 317 (1920)

40 S.Ct. 160

64 L.Ed. 286

BIRGE-FORBES COMPANY v. HEYE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 12, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry O. Head, with whom Mr. Jesse F. Holt was on the briefs, for petitioner, made the following points:

Mr. Robert M. Rowland, with whom Mr. Newton Hance Hassiter was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit by Heye, a cotton broker in Bremen, against the petitioner, a cotton exporter in Texas, to recover sums that Heye had to pay on its account. The payments were made upon cotton sold by Heye as the petitioner's agent, to different buyers, for alleged failure of the cotton to correspond to the description upon which the price was based. In pursuance of the contracts and the rules of the Bremen Cotton...

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