Fearn v. Maltby

The defendants purchased from the plaintiffs a crop of sugar, to be delivered at the plantation of Dr. Webb, the owner, on the Bayou Lafourche. They sent their clerk to the plantation to have the sugar weighed, and instructed him not to have more of the sugar taken out of the warehouse than could be covered, as they did not wish it to get wot, and were uncertain when a boat could be sent for it. The sugar was weighed; a receipt given for it; *9and the whole lot was hauled from the sugar-house to the side of the bayou, where part of it was stored in a warehouse, and there not being room enough…