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LEIGH ELLIS & CO. v. DAVIS

No. 246.

260 U.S. 682 (1923)

43 S.Ct. 243

67 L.Ed. 460

LEIGH ELLIS & COMPANY v. DAVIS, AS AGENT, & c.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 29, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edgar Watkins for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Walter T. Colquitt, with whom Mr. Morris Brandon, Mr. John A. Hynds and Mr. A.A. McLaughlin were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit upon two bills of lading for failure to deliver the full amount of cotton covered by them. The plaintiffs allege that they purchased the bills at a rate determined by the number of pounds specified in the bills but that on delivery it turned out that the weight of one hundred bales covered by one of the bills was 15,312 pounds short, and that of two hundred...

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