Stewart v. Rankin

The appellees sued the appellant on the following instrument:

“This agreement witnesseth that James A. Rankin has this day bargained and sold to Samuel H. Stewart one hundred head of smooth, fat hogs, for eight dollars and fifty cents per hundred pounds; the hogs to be delivered at John Jackman’s scales, at Milroy, 'Rush county, Indiana, between the 1st and the 17th days of October, 1870. Said hogs shall average not less than two hundred and sixty-five (265) pounds each; to be smooth, well-corn-fed hogs.

“The said Stewart agrees to pay the sum of money per hundred pounds above specified for…