Maybee v. Tregent

Tregent sued plaintiffs in error upon a declaration containing one special count and the common counts. He gave particulars under the common counts of a claim for $180, obtained by them of him through John Baker upon a shipping receipt alleged to be fraudulent, and upon the false pretense that they had shipped the flour called for by it.

This shipping receipt as it is called in the declaration and bill is an important document in the case. In consists of an ordinary railroad receipt dated at Maybee station on the Canada Southern Bailway, October 18, 1878, to the effect that the railway company…