Bradley v. Washington, Alexandria, & Georgetown Steam Packet Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for Washington County, in the District-of Columbia. This was an action on the case, brought in the Circuit Court,- on the'24th December-1834, by the defendants in error.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for Washington County, in the District-of Columbia. This was an action on the case, brought in the Circuit Court,- on the'24th December-1834, by the defendants in error. The claiin of the plaintiffs was for two thousand-seven hundred-and sixty-five dpllars, alleged to be due on the 7th day of February, 1832, for the hire of.the steamboat Franklin, before that time-let and delivered by the plaintiffs to the defendant, now the plaintiff in error. The cause was tried in 1838,.and the jury, under the directions of the Court, found a verdict for the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Barbour
delivered the opinion of the Court.—
This case is brought before us by a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of the- District of Columbia, for the county of Washington.
It was an action of assumpsit, brought by the defendants in error, against the plaintiff in error, to recover a sum claimed for the hire of the steamboat Franklin.
The claim was founded upon a written contract, concluded between the parties, by the following correspondenceOn the 19th of November, 1831, the plaintiff" in error wrote to the defendants in error, a note, of which the following is a copy: “ I agree to…
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