Ward's Central & Pacific Lake Co. v. Elkins
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Superior Court of Detroit. as to the evidence of statements by the steamboat clerk, cited: 14 Mich., 265; F. & M. Bank v. Whitfield, 24 Wend., 419; Luby v. Hudson R. R., 17 N. Y., 131; Weeks v. Lowry, 8 Barb., 530; Blendon v. Nicolay, 4 E. D. Smith, 14; Ray v. Smith, 2 Hun, 597; Chapman v. Erie R. R., 55 N. Y., 579; and on the measure of damages: Brown v. Foster, 51 Penn., 165; Brackett v. McNair, 14 Johns., 170; O’Connor v. Foster, 10 Watts, 418; Cutting v. G. T.…
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Error to Superior Court of Detroit. as to the evidence of statements by the steamboat clerk, cited: 14 Mich., 265; F. & M. Bank v. Whitfield, 24 Wend., 419; Luby v. Hudson R. R., 17 N. Y., 131; Weeks v. Lowry, 8 Barb., 530; Blendon v. Nicolay, 4 E. D. Smith, 14; Ray v. Smith, 2 Hun, 597; Chapman v. Erie R. R., 55 N. Y., 579; and on the measure of damages: Brown v. Foster, 51 Penn., 165; Brackett v. McNair, 14 Johns., 170; O’Connor v. Foster, 10 Watts, 418; Cutting v. G. T. R. W Co., 13 Allen, 318; Spring v. Haskill, 4 Allen, 112; 9 C. B. (N. S.), 632; Wilson v. L. & G. R. R., 6 H. & N., 211;…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, J:
Elkins recovered damages against the plaintiff in error for failure to cany certain salt from Bay City to Chicago, in November, 1874.
Elkins was a salt dealer in Chicago, and sued upon an alleged contract whereby the plaintiff in error was to carry three cargoes of salt, of about seventeen thousand bushels in all, only one of which was taken. The cargoes were to be called for from the 15th to the 20th of November. The regular business of plaintiff in error was between Buffalo and Duluth, with power, as was claimed, to do business elsewhere on the lakes.
Elkins gave evidence tending…
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