Baker v. Farmbrough

This was an action by the appellees against the appellant, to .recover damages for the breach of a contract for the sale of hogs.

The substantial allegations of the complaint are these: That the plaintiffs were, on the-day of April, 1869, the owners of one hundred and seventy-one hogs, which were upon the farm of Farmbrough in Shelby county, Indiana; that such hogs had been previously weighed at Morgantown, and weighed, in gross weight, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six pounds; that the plaintiffs on said day sold such hogs at said weight to the appellant, at six cents per pound,…