Morgan v. Botsford

Plaintiffs brought an action in the court below to recover the balance due for a quantity of coal sold and delivered to the defendant.

The defendant pleaded the general issue, and gave notice that the plaintiffs had entered into a general average bond to pay their proportion of the losses and expenses arising from the raising of the schooner barge H. F. Church, which had sunk in the river near’ the pier at Cleveland, Ohio, having on board a cargo of coal belonging to the plaintiffs in this suit. The court below rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for 1746.67.

There appears in the…