John Edminson v. Baxter and Morell

PeR Cukiam.

The defendants sued the complainant at law, and recovered judgment for $857.60, for freight of certain casks of rum, brought from New Orleans to Clarkesville, whereupon the complainant filed this bill in equity, complaining that he put on board their boat at Orleans, divers casks of rum, and that after great delay they arrived at Clarkesville, when 176 gallons of the rum were missing, and were not delivered by them to the complainant, for which they ought to account, but had given no credit for in their verdict and judgment against him for the freight. He now claims it, and claimed…