Legal Opinion

Clark v. Barnwell

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 18, 1852PublishedCited by 187 opinions

This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina.. It.was originally a libel, filed yi the District Court by Barn-well & RaVenel against the ship Susan W. Lind, under the following circumstances: . On the 4th of March, 1848, Richard Shiel & Co. shipped, at Liverpool, in the ship Susan W. .Lind, Tristram Clark, master, twenty-four boxes of cotton thread, consigned to Barnwell & Ravenel at Charleston.

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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of South Carolina.. It.was originally a libel, filed yi the District Court by Barn-well & RaVenel against the ship Susan W. Lind, under the following circumstances: . On the 4th of March, 1848, Richard Shiel & Co. shipped, at Liverpool, in the ship Susan W. .Lind, Tristram Clark, master, twenty-four boxes of cotton thread, consigned to Barnwell & Ravenel at Charleston. The bill Pf lading contained the usual clause, “ to be delivered in like good order, (all and every, the dangers and accidents of the seas and…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the District of South Carolina in admiralty.

The libel was filed against the ship Susan W. Lind and owners for alleged damage to cargo shipped to the libellants, as consignees, from Liverpool to Charleston, through the neglect and fault of the master. The goods shipped were twenty-four boxes of cotton thread, which on delivery at Charleston were damaged to the amount of some fifty per cent. The spools of thread were packed in small wooden boxes fined with paper, one hundred dozen in eaeh box, and again inclosed in a large wooden box, six.…

2Cited by187 opinions

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  4. The FolminaSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
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