Bradley v. Denton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This suit was brought on a contract of affreightment, by declaration served and filed, by Denton, plaintiff below, against Bradley and Cutler, defendants below.
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This suit was brought on a contract of affreightment, by declaration served and filed, by Denton, plaintiff below, against Bradley and Cutler, defendants below. For that whereas at, &c,, the said defendants made a certain verbal contract or agreement in consideration that the said plaintiff, then master and owner of the schooner Dolphin, a vessel naviga-^16 waters of lake Michigan, and employed in the business of carrying lumber on said lake, would carry in said schooner, during the summer season of Ike year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one» for the said defendants, from the port of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith,. J.
This suit was commenced by declaration in the Circuit Court by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error upon a contract of affreightment- The declaration alleges that the *563plaintiff below, on the Sth day of July, 1851, at the city of Racine, was the owner and master of a certain vessel called the Dolphin, used in navigating the waters of lake Michigan, and in the business of carrying lumber on said lake ; that the defendants below were partners, doing business in Racine under the firm and style of Bradley & Cutler ; that the defendants entered into a verbal…
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