Supreme Court of Arkansas May 15, 1880 (Packard v. Taylor, Cleveland & Co.)

Eakin, J.

Taylor, Cleveland & Co., merchants at Pine Bluff, brought this action at law against appellants, Packard & Hammett, owners of the steamboat'“Lizzie,” to charge them for damages to goods which had been delivered to said steamer at Little Bock, to be transported to Pine Bluff, and which had been injured by the sinking of the steamer in the Arkansas river, before her departure from the