Reports of Cases at Law, Argued and Determined in the Court ...
William Rice
R. David C. M''Clure v. Edwakd Richardson. Defendant was the owner of a boat, in which he was accustomed to carry his own cotton to Charleston ; and occasionally, when he had not a load of his own, to take for his neighbors, they paying freight for the same. One Hotazer was the master or patroon of the boat, and the general habit was for those who wished to send their cotton by the defendant''s boat, to apply to the defendant himself. On this occasion, the patroon had been told to ...