Lowe v. Nelson

By the court:

Slidell, J.

The plaintiffs bought of the defendants, at New Orleans, twelve hundred and five bales of cotton, for which they paid the sum of $29,-343 41. The sale was made in the month of August. It was shipped, in that month, to Glasgow, and upon examination by two brokers there, after landing, they gave a certificate that nine hundred and sixty-eight bales were “ country damaged,”, and two hundred and eighteen were in so bad a state that, to make them merchantable; it was necessary to pick and recover them. They certified that, had the'cotton been sound, the damaged sold as…