Leech v. Baldwin
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Jllleghany county. Robert Baldwin and others, owners of the steamboat “Abeona” against Malcom Leech.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Jllleghany county. Robert Baldwin and others, owners of the steamboat “Abeona” against Malcom Leech. The plaintiff gave in evidence a bill of lading, dated at New Orleans the 20th day of March 1833, signed by the master of the steamboat “Farmer,” acknowledging the receipt of 90 barrels of molasses in good order, weighing 26,660 lbs., to be transported to Pittsburgh, and delivered to M. Leech, the defendant, freight to be paid by him at the rate of 60 cents per hundred pounds. The plaintiffs then proved that the said molasses were transhipped from the said…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
The first error assigned has been-abandoned here and the cause turns on the second point proposed to the court, and their charge on it. The suit was for the price of carrying-goods (molasses) from New Orleans to Pittsburgh. The defence, as appears by the second point, on which the opinion of the court was requested, was, that the article carried was in part lost, and the residue injured by mixing water with it; and the court were requested to charge the jury, that “defendant was entitled to deduct the amount of damage sustained by him in the…
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