Sawyer v. Oakman
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[This was an appeal by Samuel Oakman and others from a decree of the district court for the district of Massachusetts (Case No. 12.404), in a libel by Charles Sawyer and •others against Samuel Oakman and others, to recover damages sustained by libellants’ boat. The cause was removed into this court from the circuit court for the district aforesaid, pursuant to Act Feb. 28, 1839, § 8 (5 Stat. 322).]
1Opinion of the Court
WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.
A decree in favor of the libellants having been made in the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, the respondents appealed to the circuit court, claiming that, upon the whole case, they are not liable for the damages awarded to the libellants, and that, if liable at all, the commissioner by whom the amount of such damage was ascertained and reported, erred in allowing certain items which he included therein. The libellants, having, in the district court, taken certain exceptions to the report of the commissioner, by reason of the…
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