Moss v. Bettis
Tennessee Supreme Court
EROM DYER. Appeal in error by plaintiff from judgment of tbe Circuit Court, May Term, 1868. Jeto. A. Rogers, J. cited Turney v. Wilson, 7 'Ter., 340; Craig v. Childress, Peck, 270; Johnson v. Friar, 4 Ter., 48; Gordon v. Buchanan, 5 Ter., 71.
1Opinion of the Court
SNBB», J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This action is to recover damages for the loss and injury to, two boat loads of lumber which the defendant’s intestate, Joel Peel, in his lifetime, in the summer of 1860, undertook for hire, to carry from Chestnut Bluff on the Forked Deer river, in the county of Dyer, to the city of Memphis. After the boats had proceeded down the river some fourteen miles from the point of departure, they struck some obstruction in the stream, and were ^sunk, which occasioned the loss of some of the lumber and the injury of much of that which .was recovered: the…
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