Bennett v. Filyaw
Supreme Court of Florida
Error from Franklin County. This case was decided at the Fall Term, 1844, of the late Supe-ñor Court of the Territory of Florida for the County of Franklin, The declaration was in trespass on the case against Bennett as owner and master of a certain steamboat called the “ Louisa,” and was to recover damages for the loss and non-délivery of a quantity of tobacco shipped by Filyaw in Dec., 1842, on board the same at Mount Vernon, for the city of Apalachicola.
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Error from Franklin County. This case was decided at the Fall Term, 1844, of the late Supe-ñor Court of the Territory of Florida for the County of Franklin, The declaration was in trespass on the case against Bennett as owner and master of a certain steamboat called the “ Louisa,” and was to recover damages for the loss and non-délivery of a quantity of tobacco shipped by Filyaw in Dec., 1842, on board the same at Mount Vernon, for the city of Apalachicola. The declaration contained two counts. The first set forth that 'Bennett was master and commander of a certain steamboat called the “…
1Opinion of the Court
Macrae, J.,
delivered the following opinion:
This is an action on the case instituted in the late Superior Court of Franklin County, by Oscar Filyaw against Archibald T. Bennett, to recover from the defendant, as master and commander and owner of a certain steamboat, damages for the non-delivery and loss of a quantity of tobacco alleged to have been shipped by the plaintiff on board the same, in'December, 1842, to be carried by the defendant from the alleged place of shipment on the Apalachicola river to the city of Apalachicola, to which city said steamboat was alleged to have been bound at…
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