Case ID: la_1/html/0232-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Martin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LOWERY vs. YOUNG & AL.
    
    The owners of a steam-boat, are liable for the acts of their captain.
    If he neglect to carry goods, the measure of damages is, the difference between the value of them at the period when they ought to be landed, and their value when they are.
    Appeal from the court of the parish and city of New-Orleans.
    The defendants were owners of the steamboat Powhatan, and by their agent at Cincinnati, received from the plaintiff a quantity of flour, to be shipped to, New-Qrfeans by the Powhatan, then at Louisville.
    It appeared from the evidence, that the Powhatan left Louisville before the arrival of the flour, which was sent in other boats, and did not reach New-Orleans until the price of the article had considerably fallen. There was judgment for the plaintiff for 357 dollars 20 cents, being the difference between the price of the flour at its delivery inNew-Orléans, and what it would have sold forbad it been sent by the Powhatan -according tothe bill -of lading. The defendants appealed.
    TJf owner of a steamboat is i^bie for the acts measure of damence between the value of them at the period when they ought to he landed, and their value when they are.
    
      Preston, for appellee: Hawes, for appellant.
   Martin, J.

delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff claims damages of the owner of a steam boat, for the neglect of their agents, who received the plaintiff’s flour in Cincinnati to be conveyed to New-Orleans, in the boat which was then at Louisville,and departed^before thfe flat on which the flour was put, reached the latter port. It is clear the defendants are liable for the act of their captain, who did not wait for the ar-1 rival of the plaintiff’s flour at Louisville,and the judge has correctly taken as the measure of damages, the difference in the value of flou at the time of the boat’s arrival, and at 7 *» the price proved of the flour’s arrival.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the parish court be affirmed with costs.