DeLeon v. McKernan

The action is for damages for a breach of contract. The defendants were copartners in the business of ex-pressmen. On the morning of October 30, 1897, the plaintiff, a commercial traveler, asked defendants if they would get his trunk down to pier No. 47, North river, before 11 o’clock that morning, as the boat upon which plaintiff was to go to Barbadoes sailed promptly at noon, and the steamship company required the baggage to be there by 11 o’clock. The defendants agreed to get the trunk there in time, and plaintiff paid them fifty cents expressage. One of the defendants swears that he gave…