Mason v. Cowan's Administrator

Judge Ewing

dellveied the Opinion of the Court.

Cowan and Mason were near neighbors, and the former was a farmer, and raised and fattened hogs for market. In the fall of 1836, they entered into the following agreement: “This writing is to show that James F. Mason “has bought of Wm. C. Cowan all the hogs that he may “have for market, next fall; to be delivered about the “25th or 10th of October. The lot of hogs are to aver“age two hundred and fifty pounds, and be in number, “about one hundred, more or less, at the price of five “dollars per hundred pounds, gross, payable in ninety “days after…