Bausman v. Smith

Smith, J.-

This was an action commenced by process of foreign attachment. The affidavit stated that the defendants were justly indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum of 519 dollars and 91 cents, being the amount of damages due for injury to a large quantity of flour, to-wit, 768 barrels of flour, while on its transit from Lafayette, Indiana, to the city of New York; said flour having been received from the plaintiffs by the defendants, as common carriers, and under an agreement by the latter to deliver the same in good order, at the city of New York, for a certain compensation, as freight, to…