Bliven Mead v. . Hudson River R.R. Co.

On the 2d day of September, 1859, the Plaintiff delivered to the Defendants, at their depot in the village of Sing Sing, Westchester County, twenty-nine cases of saw plates and handles, of the value of $4,338.82, for transportation to the city of New York, which were on that day placed by the Defendants in their freight cars for that purpose. Before the regular hour for the departure of the train in which they were to go, a complaint was made on oath, by one Cheeseman, to a justice of the peace of Sing Sing, to the eifect that the said merchandise had been stolen or embezzled from the Eagle…