Lees v. Richardson
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment entered on the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover the sum of $1,320 and interest, the value of forty-four tierces of lard alleged to belong to the plaintiffs, and to be unlawfully detained from them by the defendants.
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Appeal by plaintiffs from a judgment entered on the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover the sum of $1,320 and interest, the value of forty-four tierces of lard alleged to belong to the plaintiffs, and to be unlawfully detained from them by the defendants. The cause was tried before a referee, who found and reported to the court the facts in the case, with his conclusions as follows: “ I do find that on the 1st day of March, 1856, the plaintiffs sold to one Fisher A. Fisher 312 tierces of lard, at 10¿- cents per pound, amounting, in the whole, to $9,378.91, for cash; that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Daly, First Judge.
The plaintiffs in this case, Lees & Waller, sold to one Fisher 312 tierces of lard at 10 cents per pound, amounting to the sum of $9,378.91, for cash. The lard, at the time of the sale, which was on the 17th of March, 1856, was in a ship lying at one of the wharves in this city. The lard was landed from the ship, weighed by the plaintiffs upon the wharf, and then delivered to Fisher, who, having sold 262 tierces of it, delivered the amount sold by him from the wharf to the various parties to whom he had sold it. The delivery to Fisher was completed on the 4th…
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