Allen v. Thomas
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 50 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL FROM SHELBY CIRCUIT COURT. cited Story on Bailments, sec. 103 ; Story's Eq. Jur., sec. 1041; 1 Met., 499. cited Story on Bailments} section 210; 4 /. /. Marshall, 207; 1 Chitty's Pleading, 3, 4, 6, 8, and note.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE DUVALL
'delivered the opinion op the court:
Thomas brought this action against Allen, to recover three hundred dollars, which it is alleged the latter received from the former through his agents in New Orleans, to be delivered by the defendant to Capt.” William Mason in Nicaragua. It is further alleged, that the defendant undertook to deliver this sum of money to Mason, but that Mason was dead at the time the defendant received it, of which fact the plaintiff was at the time ignorant, and that the defendant did not deliver the money to Mason, nor, although requested so to do, has he…
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