Harrison v. Hixson

This was an action on the case by the plaintiffs in error against the defendants in error. The declaration contains four counts. Three of them are substantially the same, and charge that the plaintiffs, at the request of the defendants, caused to be delivered to them, on board the schooner Post-Boy, a quantity of wheat to be carried by them from Michigan City to Buffalo in the state of New-York, and there to be delivered for the plaintiffs, for a certain freight or reward, the dangers of the seas only excepted; that the defendants received the wheat for that purpose, and that although the…