The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-30
Received payment, March 3. 1867,

WILLIAMSON ~ LEFl6Gb.
Attorneys at Law.
] further charge that these accounts were col
lected by you through agents OF your own seleo-
ton and for whom You are in law and In TACT
responsible. and this, / hold Is sufficiently
proved by your own letter to Messrs. Farley.
Jurey 81 Co.. which here quote In full
SHREVEPORT. La. March 30, 1850.
Msssrs. Farley. Jurey h Go. New Orleans;
Gentiemen-Y Your favor OF seventeenth instant
Ia received. ncoslbg ~ us for collection balance
Of account against Il. It. Scott, Of Texas, amount.
ing to s27s o.. Enclosed we reform You the said
account, declining to receive 1t for the follow
ing reasons: /. We have long since dissolved
par tnsrship, and hre not receiving claims Tor
collection, ?. Even, while .pfaeticipg We only
received claias coleetble la Texas 10 accom-.
MEDIATE our friends. But this has never proflted
us aud we decline to have anything to do with
such claims. Your letter OF ty-thltd In
slant addressed personally to our Mr.. Levisse
IL also received. In which you express surprise
at being assut ed by Mr.. Caldwell on bis return
lately from Marshall. that the claims u Smaley
we'll certainly did not tell you that these claims
had been paid to Williamson and Levises.nor fs
sucn The fact. You say: As you twel are aware
that the commissions on these claims we're paid
ysu mt the time Of receiving them for collection
we had n right to expect them promptly
accounted for when settlement was made with
mediate me- lat s' attention We can scarcely comprs.
bend how or why you should be writing these
things to uS or TO either OF HS.
The matter is between you and Messrs. Hill b
Langley. We have nothing to do with II. We
received your claims with the express under
standing on your part as well as our own. that
we should send them to our correspondent,
thereby serving rs intermediators simply and
any fees we may have received from you were
simply as a compensation for this service. And
you have been fully advised ever since the time
we received those claims that Messrs. Hill h
Langley. Of Marshall. have charge Of them. and
you have been corresponding with them direct
be- writing to us about these matters2 ii You
mean simply to request our friendly Offices in
recovering your claims. We shall readily do ali
cast Of your letter especially TO the writer Levi
seeD. seems Otherwise Please explain yourself
more fully. Respeetfnlly, yonrs, ,
WILLIAMSON & LEvIsEE.
Per Leysee.
Now. OF course understand that the moral
aspect OF the whole affair hinges, Just here,
upon the nature OF your relations as between
Nessrs. Farley. Jurey h Co. and this so-ealled
correspondent to whom you turned over their
accounts. You claim in the letter I have just
quoted that you notified the former as to the
fact Of HIS having charge Of their business
and that they had been in direct correspondence
with Hill ever since. II this were true. admit
that 1t would relieve you Of legal responsibility
Ia the premises. though not Of moral RESPONSE
not true, however, so there is no need 10 sepa-
rate the legal and the moral features OF the
case. Messrs. Farley. Jurey Co. never heard
Of Hin until. at your insttgation evidently ne
wrote to them announcing his identity In the
hope OF inducing them to recognize him and'
so. to relieve you. He failed In this as ne con
fessess. himself. in letter TO Egan' william
son and Wise three months subsequent 70 your
letter last above quoted. Let me refresh your
memory with the text Of that letter:
MARSHALL. Texas, May 81. 1869.
Col. Geo. Williamson. Shreveport. La:
Dear SRI had expected TO have been In
ghreveport before this bat circumstances have
nreyanted. L hardly know what r. say abo1t
y natter Of Farley. Jurey b Co. Thy seem 10
erei,t ;Gr9re mn statement about the settlement
XIII ela1a rs Sn1aitey. | will. however. make
tben a proposition. which hope will be ac-
canted and end this matter. have this year a
co. aiderable cotton crop, which looks az we'll
90 anv In the country. | will obligate myself to
sbir tham the coming fall enough cotton TO paw
sba amounts at which the claims Of Nebiunt 4
SmaIley were settled, they transferring 10 me
ali their claims against those parties will
also nav the customary interest on Commits
sions. as If 1t was an advancement TO me on my