S. Landow & Co. v. Rizer

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

This is an action for $178.16, a sum representing the freight upon a carload of watermelons shipped by the defendant to the plaintiffs from Olar, S. C., to-New Haven, Conn., under an agreement of sale for which the plaintiffs were to pay the defendant the sum of $300.00, less the freight, but by mistake the bank which handled the order notify shipment remitted to the defendant the sum of $300-.00, inadvertently failing to deduct the freight of $178.16, and charged the amount so remitted to the plaintiffs. The action is for the…