Warden v. Greer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the district court of Allegheny county. This was an action on the case by James Greer against John Warden and others, owners of the steamboat Pennsylvania. The facts of the case, and points argued are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Huston, J.
James Greer, the plaintiff below, brought this suit against the owners of the steamboat Pennsylvania, on account of loss in a cargo of two hundred and forty-eight barrels of molasses, consigned to him by Damarin & Co., of whom he had purchased it. The bill of lading, dated the 3d of May 1836, stated it to have been received in good order, and well conditioned; it was to be delivered in like good order, to James Greer, at Pittsburgh, he paying freight, 3 dollars a barrel; in the margin of this bill, was, “with the privilege of re-shipping.”…
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