Dean v. Vaccaro
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM MEMPHIS. Upon an agreed case his Honor, Judge Caruthees, rendered judgment for the plaintiffs, at the November-Term, 1858. Defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCaRUTHERS, J.
This suit was instituted to recover the value of several boxes of cigars, forwarded by the steamboat Glendale, from Cincinnati, to the defendants in error, who resided and did business in Memphis. They were landed on the wharf at Memphis, and delivered over to one of the city draymen, by the clerk ■ of the boat, to be carried to the consignee, Yaccaro, but never delivered to him. 0'n the arrival of the boat, the bill of lading was handed to Yaccaro, but no othér notice given to him on the subject, and it does not appear by the case agreed, that he, in fact, had any notice of the arrival of…
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