Etoniah Canal & Drainage Co. v. Husband

Citations

• 51 Fla. 183

Syllabus

<p>1. Where L. & Son, partners, had contracted with E. C. & D. Company, a corporation, to furnish a dredge boat and do certain dredging and canal work, to be paid for by the corporation by the .square yard, in which contract the dredge was pledged to the E. C. & D. Company to secure the faithful execution of the work, and there are no other circumstances showing that E. C. & D. Company became liable for the debts of L. & Son, neither the fact that the company kept agents on the dredge to look after its interests, nor that it paid claims against the dredge to prevent its being stopped from work by legal process, and to prevent liens on its works renders the company liable to a firm of merchants for goods sold by them on a credit to L. & Son while the latter were working the dredge under the contract.</p> <p>2. The law applicable to this case is settled in the case of Daytona Bridge Company v. Bond, 47 Fla. 136, 36 South. Rep. 445.</p>