Hanna v. Phelps

Assumpsit. The complaint is that Phelps, the plaintiff below, on the first day of December, 1849, delivered to Hanna and Burr, who were then engaged in the business of rendering lard from hogs’ heads by steam, and barreling the lard so rendered for hire, at the town of Wabash, three thousand hogs’ heads, which they agreed to render into lard, and barrel the same for the plaintiff, within a reasonable time, &e., for which service he agreed to pay them a reasonable compensation, &c. It is averred that the defendants have failed to perform the agreement on their part, &c.

Pleas, 1. The general…