Scott v. King

The parties made a written agreement by which Scott was to deliver, on board of a canal boat, four thousand bushels of shelled, merchantable corn—two thousand bushels to be delivered on the 20th of August, 1856, and two thousand bushels on the 30th of the same month. Five hundred dollars was paid down, 500 dollars was to be paid on the 8th of August, and 200 dollars was to be paid “ upon the delivery of each load,” in all 1,400 dollars.

The complaint averred that the defendant, Scott, was engaged in buying corn, &c., and was possessed of a warehouse, at which the corn was to be delivered…