Kenyon v. Tucker

This is a petition for a new trial on the ground of alleged erroneous instructions to the jury in the trial of the cause.

The action is assumpsit upon a bill of lading whereby the plaintiffs acknowledge the receipt on board the schooner John Stock-ham, then lying at Port Johnson, N. J., of two hundred and twenty tons of coal, and promise to deliver the same at the port of Narragansett Pier, to the defendant or his assigns, “ he or they paying freight for the same at the rate of one dollar per ton and dis. New B/L.”

Evidence was admitted at the trial to show that the expression “ New B / L.”…