Parmalee v. Wilks
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury. The questions were raised by exceptions taken by the defendants. The trial was had at the Erie county circuit, in September, 1854. The facts and exceptions sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Marvin, J.
In June, 1851, the plaintiff owned a raft of saw logs which was at Port Maitland, upon the Canada side of Lake Erie, at the distance of forty-two miles .from Black Rock, in New York. He made a contract on Saturday with the defendants, who were the owners of the steamboat Experiment, by which it was agreed that the defendants would come to Port Maitland, on the next Tuesday morning, ■with the steamboat Experiment, and would proceed up the river about five miles to Dunville Dam, and there land her passengers and immediately return to Port Maitland, and take the…
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