Roth v. Harkson

Plaintiff sues the defendants to recover the sum of $600, the value of a lost bale of cotton, alleged to have been delivered to them.

The answer contains, in substance, a general denial.

The District Court gave judgment for $56á 16, and tho defendants appealed.

The principal question in the case is one of delivery to the vessel.

The plaintiff, who carried on the business of a drayman in New Orleans, on the 13th of August, 1861, was employed by Buddeeke & Co, to haul sixty-four bales of cotton to the said brig, and the said vessel was to receive the said cotton as freight. On that day the whole…