Cox v. Reynolds

Davison, J,

Assumpsit. The declaration contains four counts. The first is upon a promissory note for 218 dollars. The second and third are in substance the same. They aver that the defendant was a miller, and at his request the plaintiff had delivered to him four hundred bushels of wheat, to be safely kept, manufactured into flour, and returned to the plaintiff for a reasonable reward; yet the defendant had not manufactured said wheat and re-delivered it, nor had he safely kept the same, but, on the contrary, he had carelessly, &c., allowed it to be taken and carried away by his servants, and,…