Case Name: Hodgson v. Woodhouse
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1809-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 549
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hodgson v. Woodhouse.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 549–550

Head Matter:
Hodgson v. Woodhouse.
Trover will not lie against the master of a vessel for the cargo, unless the freight is paid, or tendered, or the payment waived; nor if the goods were lost so that they did not come to the use of the defendant.
TroveR against the master of a vessel for cheese and porter.
Mr. Taylor, for the defendant,
prayed the Court to instruct the j ury, that the plaintiff could not recover, unless he had paid or tendered the freight; — which instruction the Court gave with a proviso that the jury should not be satisfied by the evidence that the defendant had waived the precedent condition of payment. Ross v. Johnson, 5 Burr. 2825.

Opinion:
The Coukt,
also, at the prayer of the defendant, instructed the jury, that if they should be of opinion that the cheese was eaten by the rats, or otherwise lost, so that it did not come to the use of the defendant, the plaintiff cannot recover in this form.