Supreme Court of Louisiana March 15, 1867, No. 1301 (Clark v. Norwood)

Taliab'erro, J.

On the 14th February, 1862, the plaintiffs entered into an agreement with the defendant through Hawkins & Norwood, acting as his agents, the substance of which seems to be that the plaintiffs were to pay the defendant, Smith, three thousand dollars upon the signing of the contract, for one hundred bales of cotton, of the average weight of four hundred pounds, which cotton, as the