Straus v. Ross

The complaint avers that the plaintiff' Straus, and the defendant, Boss, entered into a contract by which the latter sold to the former his entire crop of wool, shorn in the spring of 1864, and on hands, lying in defendant’s barn. That the defendant represented to the plaintiff that there was about 1,000 pounds of the wool, and the *301plaintiff agreed to pay the defendant eighty cents per pound for all of said wool, and then paid $20 upon the contract. That the plaintiff agreed to send his sacks to the defendant on the next Tuesday or Wednesday, to hold said wool, and the defendant agreed to put…