Hand v. Baynes
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN ERROR. On a writ of error to the District Court of the City and County of Philadelphia, it appeared that James Baynes brought an action on the case in that Court to June term, 1836, against Joseph Hand, to recover from the defendant the value of certain hides shipped on board a vessel called the Neptune, belonging to the defendant, and intended'to be carried to Baltimore by the way of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, but which were lost at sea.
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IN ERROR. On a writ of error to the District Court of the City and County of Philadelphia, it appeared that James Baynes brought an action on the case in that Court to June term, 1836, against Joseph Hand, to recover from the defendant the value of certain hides shipped on board a vessel called the Neptune, belonging to the defendant, and intended'to be carried to Baltimore by the way of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, but which were lost at sea. The cause was tried on the 3rd of April, 1837, before Jones, J., when the plaintiff’s counsel gave in evidence the following receipt or bill of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J. —
This was an action to recover the value of one hundred slaughter hides, shipped' on board the Sloop Neptune, for Baltimore, via the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. The suit is founded on a receipt in the following words :
“ Philadelphia, January 14th, 1836.
Received on board Hand’s Line for Baltimore, via Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, from J. Baynes, one hundred slaughter hides, on deck, which I promise to deliver to Joseph Davenport, at Balti*213more, the dangers of the navigation, fire, leakage and breakage excepted, he or they paying freight…
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