M'Master & Hyde v. Brander
Supreme Court of Louisiana
ATPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action to recover the sum of one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, the estimated value of a case of goods shipped by one of the plaintiffs, in New-York, for New-Orleans, on board the ship Harkaway, belonging to the defendants, and not delivered according to the bill of lading.
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ATPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action to recover the sum of one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, the estimated value of a case of goods shipped by one of the plaintiffs, in New-York, for New-Orleans, on board the ship Harkaway, belonging to the defendants, and not delivered according to the bill of lading. The plaintiffs expressly allege that they are the owners of said box of merchandise, (describing it;) that it contains sixty pieces and eighteen yards of printed muslins, worth one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, according to a detailed…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphy, J.
This is an action to recover one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars, the value of a case of goods put on board the ship Harkaway, in New-York, and consigned to the plaintiffs here, but not delivered to them on the arrival of the ship at this port. The defendants, after a general denial of all the allegations tending to make them liable to plaintiffs, aver that the case of goods described in the petition, was duly delivered and has been tendered to the plaintiffs, who have refused to receive it. The plaintiffs obtained, in the inferior court, a judgment; from which defendants prosecute…
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- McMaster v. BranderSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1842