Stiff v. Nugent

The plaintiff alleges, that he purchased of the defendants, a lot of cotton, in the usual cottrse of trade, and which was to have been sound, merchantable, and well packed according to the samples, and to justify the price given for it. That he shipped the cotton to Liverpool for sale, and that a large part was found falsely packed, the centre of the bales being very inferior, containing quantities of gin-waste, and entirely different from the samples exhibited at the sale, — which produced a loss of three farthings per pound in the Liverpool market, the cotton selling for that much less than…