Thompson v. Gwyn

SlMBALL, J. :

The questions arise on the refusal of the court to admit to the jury testimony offered by the plaintiffs. Thompson & Chew, as disclosed by the testimony, had delivered to G-wyn & Wallis, who were wharfingers, receiving and forwarding merchants, at Eggs Point, on the Mississippi river, ten bales of cotton, to be by them shipped to New Orleans, for the plaintiffs, as they would be thereafter directed. A few days after the receipt of the cotton, which was early in December, Grwyn & Wallis, by mistake, forwarded the cotton to New Orleans, to the house of Clapp,- Brother & Co., for…