American Merchants' Union Express Co. v. Phillips

Graves, Oh. J.

The company sued in assumpsit before a justice, to recover pay for the carriage of a quantity of live pigeons. The defense actually interposed was a counter claim that tbe plaintiffs misconducted in the affair, and thereby caused the defendants damage.

The pleadings appear to have been very informal. The printed record represents that the declaration was merely *517“for charges due for freight on twenty coops of pigeons, carried by plaintiffs at the request of defendants, from Montague, Michigan, to Detroit, and delivered to defendants; and claimed damage twenty dollars,” and that…