Ridgely v. Spenser

IN ERROR. WRIT of error to the Common Pleas of Huntingdon county. The. plaintiffs in error brought an action on the case against the defendant as a common carrier by water, for not delivering at Baltimore, certain forge hammers and castings which he had received at Hoshel’s landing upon the Juniata, and undertook to carry for hire. Upon the trial of the cause, the defendant’s counsel offered in evidence the record of a verdict which had been given upon a former trial of this cause, and was afterwards set aside. The evidence was objected to; but the court admitted it, and sealed a bill of…