Sprague v. West
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel in personam by James. Sprague and others, owners of the schooner John R. Watson, against J. Selby West, to recover damages for the detention of a vessel. The libel in the cause was as follows: “To the Honorable Samuel R. Betts, &c.
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This was a libel in personam by James. Sprague and others, owners of the schooner John R. Watson, against J. Selby West, to recover damages for the detention of a vessel. The libel in the cause was as follows: “To the Honorable Samuel R. Betts, &c. “The libel of James Sprague, Charles Keen, David Crowell, and Daniel Butler, owners of the schooner John R. Watson, against J. Selby West, of said district, coal dealer, in a cause of contract, civil and maritime, alleges as follows: “First That in the month of December last, the said schooner lying at Philadelphia and destined on a voyage to New…
1Opinion of the Court
BETTS, District Judge.
A cargo of one hundred and ninety-four tons of coal, belonging to the defendant, ■ was shipped at Philadelphia on board the libellant’s vessel. The master signed a bill of lading to deliver the same to the respondent at Forty-Second street, New York, for ninety cents per ton, freight.
The vessel arrived at the place designated on the 19th of December last, and the respondent, not being able to receive the coal at that place, ordered the master to moor at Twenty-Ninth street and unload there. The vessel took her berth at that place the same day, and the next morning was…
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