Court Opinion

ID: 8316162
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:01:27.316157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:56.438265
License: Public Domain

Cranch, C. J.
I am of opinion that as the plaintiff claimed and offered to receive the butter in Washington, on the 22d of January, 1838, the defendant was entitled either to the whole freight, or freight pro rata. I think the whole, because he offered to deliver the butter either in Georgetown or Washington, at the option of the plaintiff, if he would pay the freight; but he refused to pay any freight at all. The delay was a proper subject of a claim for damages by the plaintiff against Saughenbaugh.
The plaintiff might have refused to receive the butter. He might have abandoned it, and brought his action against Saugh-enbaugh ; but having claimed it, and offered to receive it at Washington, he cannot lawfully resist the claim for freight.
Thruston, J., concurred..
Verdict for the defendant for the freight.