Snyder v. Koons

The appellee, who was the plaintiff, sued Snyder upon a written contract, which is as follows:

“This agreement entered into this, 23d of December, 1857, between Aaron Snyder and Benjamin Koons, witnesseth: that Snyder agrees to furnish to Koons 400 head of good corn-fatted hogs, to average 200 pounds net weight; said Snyder agrees to deliver said hogs between the 15th and 25th of December, 1858, in the city of Bichnond, Wayne county, Indiana; said hogs to be delivered alive and weighed alive, at some suitable place of weighing, and one-fifth to be deducted in order to ascertain the net weight,…