Bohn v. Cleaver

This suit is for damages for the violation of a contract of affreightment. The conclusion we have come to. on the question of damages, after a careful examination of the evidence, renders it unnecessary for us to decide any other question discussed by counsel. If it be conceded that the contract was violated willfully, or through carelessness, still the measure of damages would be the injury inflicted upon the plaintiff, for there is no penal clause in the contract. It is as follows :

“ August Bohn, Esq.:

“We offer you the British auxiliary steamship Robert Lowe, about twelve hundred and…