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- Folder 1203, Pensacola Maritime Corporation vs the Texas Corp, object 1.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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Materials related to Pensacola Maritime Corporation vs the Texas Company, a suit to recover lost profits on the resale of oil due to breach of contract and was one of Francis B. Carter’s most noteworthy cases. This is a letter between the firm Blount & Blount & Carter and the Pensacola Maritime Corporation concerning the drawing up of a contract and the inclusion of additional clauses surrounding the delivery of a ship and possible penalties for delays.
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- folder1203_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object1_1
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- Pensacola Maritime Corporation vs. the Texas Company, April 1920 correspondence.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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29 pieces of business correspondence from April 1920. The correspondence is between the Pensacola Maritime Corporation and the Texas Company concerning the contracted sale and delivery of oil.
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- folder1204_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_April1920correspondence
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, Amended Declaration for Plaintiff.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter, Pensacola Maritime Corporation
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Amended declaration prepared by the attorneys for the plaintiff (Pensacola Maritime Corporation). Document states that the plaintiff withdraws its motion to remand this case to the Circuit Court of Escambia County. Document outlines the course of events in 1920 following the 1919 contract with the Texas Company and states that the plaintiff is suing for $750,000 of damages. Relevant copies of the provisions of the contract between the two parties are attached.
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- folder1206_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object17
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, April 23, 1922 de bene esse notice.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter, E.C. Maxwell, District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Florida
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Notice to the lawyers for the defendant (the Texas Company) that T.J. Sullivan, Robert G. Ingersoll, H.D. Shean, W.H. George and Thomas H. Taylor, witnesses on behalf of the plaintiff (Pensacola Maritime Corporation), will be examined de bene esse. One copy is unsigned and one is signed by E.C. Maxwell, attorney for defendant, and Blount & Blount & Carter, attorneys for the plaintiff. Draft form of deposition is included as well as handwritten notes.
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- folder1206_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object32
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, Blount & Blount & Carter Handwritten Notes.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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Handwritten notes, including names and addresses. Presumably written by Blount & Blount & Carter.
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- folder1206_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object45
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, December 1920 Sworn Statement of Francis B. Carter.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter, Pensacola Maritime Corporation, Francis B. Carter
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Unsigned legal document prepared by the attorneys for plaintiff (Pensacola Maritime Corporation) which contains oil prices and information regarding the contracted sale/delivery of oil with the defendant (The Texas Company). Includes an unsigned sworn statement by Francis B. Carter, of council for plaintiff, as well as handwritten notes.
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- folder1206_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object14
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, Draft Memorandum Brief for Plaintiff.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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Handwritten notes for the memorandum brief of Blount & Blount & Carter for the Plaintiff, Pensacola Maritime Corporation. Contains notes on legal precedent. Later incorporated into the final Memorandum Brief of Blount & Blount & Carter.
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- folder1206_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object24
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, Draft Plaintiff Documentation.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter, Pensacola Maritime Corporation
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Draft documentation with handwritten notes prepared by the attorneys for the plaintiff (Pensacola Maritime Corporation). Later incorporated into the December 1920 legal document containing an unsigned sworn statement by Francis B. Carter, of council for plaintiff.
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- folder1206_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object15
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1203, object 2.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter, Lawrence
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2 pages of undated correspondence concerning the sale of first oil then a four masted motor schooner. Neither page includes any clear indicator as to whom is either the buyer or the seller in either transaction. However, the first page does have Pensacola Maritime Corporation handwritten across the top of the page.
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- folder1203_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object2
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1203, object 3.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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Memorandum of Agreement relating to the sale of coal by the Pensacola Maritime Corporation, both out of the port of Pensacola and Mobile. Prices per ton/2000 lbs. are included but not present is the identity of the buyer.
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- folder1203_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object3
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1203, object 4.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter, Lawrence
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2 typed notes concerning the value of shipped materials, the size of ships, commission percentages, and payment amounts. Neither are dated with years, but the first references March, April July, and November and the second August. Neither has any identifying headers, but Pensacola Maritime Co. and Gulf Shipbuilding Co. are handwritten on page 1, while Pen. Maritime is scrawled in blue ink on each.
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- folder1203_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object4
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1203, object 5.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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A series of Trans-Atlantic cablegrams concerning the sale of ships and engines. The cablegrams are between Pensacola and Glasgow and about the price of ships, terms of the sale, payments, changes to the sale, and queries about what use the ships will be put to. The only identifying information is the inclusion of the Pensacola Maritime Corporation name in the majority of the correspondence and the name Sloan at the bottom of 2.
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- folder1203_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object5
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1203, object 6.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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Multiple letters from the Deep Water Ship Company to Pensacola Maritime Corporation dated from September 1919. The letters authorize the price and sale of a schooner owned by the Deep Water Ship Company and a 5% commission for Pensacola Maritime company for procuring a buyer.
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- folder1203_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object6
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1203, object 7.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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A 3 page letter dated June 11, 1920 from Blount & Blount & Carter to the Pensacola Maritime Corporation. The letter addresses contact obligations and controversies experienced by the Pensacola Maritime Corporation and other parties, specifically named is the Bullock Caldwell Shipbuilding Company. Blount & Blount & Carter support Pensacola Maritime Corporation's position that they are owed money due to the nature of the contracts between the Corporation and other parties.
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- folder1203_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_object7
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1204, April 15, 1921 memorandum.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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An April 15, 1921 four page memorandum about the amount due the Pensacola Maritime Corporation by the Texas Company, basing the claim on the prices charged by the Texas Company for “grade C” oil at Pensacola and Mobile, as per statement from H. W Patterson, agent for the Texas Company. The total amount is listed at $554,501.30 on the first page, followed by several pages of figures both typed out an accompanied by handwritten notes.
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- folder1204_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_15April1921memorandum
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1204, April 1920 copy of contract.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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3-page copy of a contract with The Texas Oil Company dated April 30, 1920 sent from Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland firm of New York. Contract stipulates delivery of oil to the J.H.W. Steele Company in both New York and New Orleans. Pensacola Maritime Corporation is designated as the selling agent. Commitments for both the number of barrels to be sold and prices per barrel by quality of the oil are designated. A handwritten note at the end states that the contract is a copy of a contract drawn...
Show more3-page copy of a contract with The Texas Oil Company dated April 30, 1920 sent from Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland firm of New York. Contract stipulates delivery of oil to the J.H.W. Steele Company in both New York and New Orleans. Pensacola Maritime Corporation is designated as the selling agent. Commitments for both the number of barrels to be sold and prices per barrel by quality of the oil are designated. A handwritten note at the end states that the contract is a copy of a contract drawn up by C.M. Barnett.
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- folder1204_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_April1920contractcopy
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1204, April 1920 copy of contract, page 3.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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3-page copy of a contract with The Texas Oil Company dated April 30, 1920 sent from Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland firm of New York. Contract stipulates delivery of oil to the J.H.W. Steele Company in both New York and New Orleans. Pensacola Maritime Corporation is designated as the selling agent. Commitments for both the number of barrels to be sold and prices per barrel by quality of the oil are designated. A handwritten note at the end states that the contract is a copy of a contract drawn...
Show more3-page copy of a contract with The Texas Oil Company dated April 30, 1920 sent from Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland firm of New York. Contract stipulates delivery of oil to the J.H.W. Steele Company in both New York and New Orleans. Pensacola Maritime Corporation is designated as the selling agent. Commitments for both the number of barrels to be sold and prices per barrel by quality of the oil are designated. A handwritten note at the end states that the contract is a copy of a contract drawn up by C.M. Barnett.
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- folder1204_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_April1920contractcopy_3
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, folder 1204, April 20, 1922 telegraph.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter
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A one page letter from J.F. Nathan of the Western Union Telegraph Company, dated April 20, 1922. Mr. Nathan is informing a Mr. T.E. Ward of the inability to acquire a copy of a telegraph from April 17, 1920 because the company destroyed their files yearly.
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- folder1204_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_20April1922telegraph
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, July 1920 Petition to the Circuit Court of Escambia County.
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- The Texas Company, Pensacola Maritime Corporation, Blount & Blount & Carter
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Notice to the Pensacola Maritime Corporation or to their attorneys Blount & Blount & Carter that the Texas Company will present this petition to the Circuit Court of Escambia County, Florida. The petition is in regards to the removal of the suit between Pensacola Maritime Corporation (plaintiff) vs. the Texas Company (defendant) from the Circuit Court of Escambia County. Assumpsit damages are listed at $500,000.
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- folder1204_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_July1920petition
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- Pensacola Maritime vs. Texas Company, May 10, 1920 Sworn Statement of James F. Phillips.
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- Blount & Blount & Carter, James F. Phillips
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Sworn statement by James F. Phillips from May 10, 1920, taken before Notary Public Joseph V. Riers. The statement is taken as part of the Pensacola Maritime Corporation vs. Texas Company and discusses the interactions between James F. Phillips and representatives from the Mobile, Atlanta, and Houston offices of the Texas Company as well as chronology of oil delivery and payment under the July 22, 1919 contract.
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- folder1204_pensacolamaritimecorpvsthetexascorp_10May1920swornstatement
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