Barrett v. Salter

This action is brought to recover of the captain and owners of the ship Huron, $1,409 46, for loss and damage sustained on forty hogsheads of tobacco’, delivered on board of said ship in July 1842, and consigned to John Gijliat & Co., of J-iondon. The petitioner alleges that at the time of the delivery and receipt of the tobacco, it was sound and in good order; but that through the culpable negligence, carelessness and inatten" tion of the captain, the forty hogsheads of tobacco, after beingrepeived by the ship, were suffered to lie out on the levée exposed to a violent storm of rain, by…