Supreme Court of Pennsylvania March 21, 1867 (Clyde v. Graver)

The opinion of the court was delivered, by

Woodward, C. J.

Charles Yan Horn having bought 7000 boxes of army bread at Washington, in the fall of 1865, 6000 for Graver and 1000 for himself, went to Alexandria, where the bread was stored, and arranged with M. E. Eldridge, the accredited agent of the defendants at that place, for the transportation of the boxes by their express line to Philadelphia.