Cope v. Cordova
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Phila-. delphia county, where the defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, had obtained judgment for fifty-nine dollars and forty-four cents upon the following case stated:—■. “The ship Lancaster, from Liverpool, owned by the defendants,was entered at the custom house at Philadelphia, on the 17th of June, 1824, and commenced unloading on the 21st of the same month.The plaintiff was consignee of ten crates of…
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This was a writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Phila-. delphia county, where the defendant in error, who was plaintiff below, had obtained judgment for fifty-nine dollars and forty-four cents upon the following case stated:—■. “The ship Lancaster, from Liverpool, owned by the defendants,was entered at the custom house at Philadelphia, on the 17th of June, 1824, and commenced unloading on the 21st of the same month.The plaintiff was consignee of ten crates of Liverpool ware, part of the cargo of said vessel. All these crates were received by the plaintiff except one, which was known…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
The substance of a bill of lading is a formal acknowledgment of a receipt of goods, and an engagement to deliver them to the consignee or his assigns. And this suit is brought ón an alleged breach of such a- contract in the non-delivery of a crate of merchandize shipped-on board the ship Lancaster from Liverpool, and consigned to Raphael Cordova in the usual form. -The goods were landed on the wharf of the • Liverpool packets, and whether this amounts to a delivery to the consignee is the principal question. It must be. conceded, that by the…
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