Dryden v. Lewis

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Lewis brought an action of covenant against Dryden, on the following instrument:—

“ On or before the first day of March next, I do hereby “ oblige and bind myself to deliver to Henry Lewis, “ or his appointed agent, at Maysville, Kentucky; three “ thousand five hundred to four thousand pounds of well “ cured bacon; for and in consideration of which bacon, “ when delivered, and of the quality aforesaid, he, the said “ Lewis, is to pay me seven and a half cents per pound.”

Lewis sued upon this covenant, and assigned for breach, the failure of Dryden…