The Steamboat J. P. Tweed v. Richards

Richards filed in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court, a complaint, in -the form of an affidavit, wherein he alleges, that on the 28th of June, 1854, he contracted, at the city of New Orleans, with one David Willard, the then master of the steamboat J. P. Tweed, for the carriage of a bale of woolen goods from that city to Memphis.' It is avered that the boat, her officers and agents, received the bale at New Orleans, but carelessly failed to deliver it at Memphis, and thereby it became lost, &c.; and that the goods, at -the time the bale should have been delivered, were worth 2,000…