v. Jackson

The Plaintiff, a merchant, employed the Defendant, fbr a reward, to bring goods and merchandize from Virginia, to Hillsborough, in this State, in his waggon , the Defendant received the goods in Virginia, and in bringing them to Hillsborough, when about to cross a river, the flat receded from one of the fore wheels of the wag-gon, and it ran with the goods into the river, and the goods were greatly damaged and impaired in value, The Defendant did not make it his common and…