Law v. Botsford

Brows:, J.

This is a libol in personam for freight-. The facts of the case aro substantially as follows : In November, 1884, the schooner Lizzie A. Law took on board at Port Huron a cargo of wheat for Buffalo, and received two bills of lading, amounting to the sum of 46,047 bushels. The second male attended to the loading in of the wheat from the elevator at Port Huron, and, with the weighman of the elevator, tallied the separate bins as they went on board the schooner, and upon completing the lading the master received two bills of lading, signed by the defendants, for this amount. The bills…