Barreda v. Silsbee
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was. brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. On the 11th of April, 1854, a charter-party was executed by B. H. Silsbee, acting owner of the ship Shirley, and E. L. Barreda & Brother, residing in Baltimore, acting as agents for the Peruvian Government.
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This case was. brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Maryland. On the 11th of April, 1854, a charter-party was executed by B. H. Silsbee, acting owner of the ship Shirley, and E. L. Barreda & Brother, residing in Baltimore, acting as agents for the Peruvian Government. The charter-party provided that the ship should “ proceed to Callao, from Australia, where she is at present bound,” and take in a cargo of guano at the Chincha Islands. The freight to be paid was at the rate of twenty-five dollars in full per ton of 20 cwt. net, guano,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This ease comes before the court upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district- of Maryland. It is an action of indebitatus assumpsit, and was brought in the court below by the defendants in error, who were the original plaintiffs, to recover the freight earned by the ship Shirley on a charter of the ship made by the plaintiffs to the original defendants for the transportation of guano from the Chincha Islands to the-United States. At the date of the charter-party,' the defendants were the agents of the -Peruvian Government, and, as such, had been for some…
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