Bennett v. Lingham

This action is brought by the owners of the steamer Notting Hill to recover damages of the defendant for an alleged breach of a live-stock freight contract, made by the defendant, whereby he agreed to ship on the said steamer about 460 head of cattle, to be transported in said vessel from New York to Deptford, at a price named. The contract was in writing, and was made in New York on the eleventh of August, 1883, at which time the steamer was upon a voyage from New York to London and back. The contract, when designating the steamer in which the cattle wore to be transported, adds to the…