Flanigan v. Waterman

The plaintiff is a farmer in Washington county, engaged in the cultivation of seed potatoes which he sold to dealers in. New York city. These potatoes were conveyed by canal boats through the barge canal to the Hudson river and thence to the city of New York. In the years 1918 and 1919 the plaintiff sold a boatload of seed potatoes to the defendant, a New York potato dealer. December 13, 1920, plaintiff had a boat loaded with potatoes in charge of Captain Reilly lying in pier 4 or 5, Coenties slip, New Ybrk city. On December thirteenth the plaintiff called on the defendant and had some…