Graham v. Ledda

The object of this suit, instituted in the Sixth District Court of New Orleans, is to recover from the defendant, two flatboats of staves, which the plaintiffs claim as their property.

The defense is, that the property in controversy belongs to the defendant, having received it in due course of trade, from certain parties, at Memphis, who bought it at a sale made by the agent of the assurers.

The plaintiffs were the consignees of the staves, etc., which had been shipped to them from Cairo, by N. W, Graham & Co., on the 8th June, 1859, but, owing to the stranding of the boats on a sand-bar, near…