Graves v. Smith

By the Court,

PAINE, J.

We can discover no error in the rulings of the court below in this case. The action was brought to recover the value of a quantity of flour, sent by the plaintiffs to the defendants as warehousemen in Milwaukee, consigned to H. McGraw & Son, McGrawville, New York. The complaint alleges that after the flour had been so received by the defendants, and while it was in their possession, the plaintiffs, through a .properly authorized agent, instructed them to forward it by the Detroit and Milwaukee railway; but that, in violation of such instructions, they sent it by a…