The Eddy
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina; tbe case being thus: On the 25th March, 1854, the master of the schooner Mary Eddy, then at New Orleans, received on board his vessel 102 hogsheads of sugar and 21 of syrup, to be carried by sea to Charleston, South Carolina, and there (delivered to Mordecai & Co., merchants of that place. The bill of lading contained the usual clause as to the payment of freight.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina; tbe case being thus: On the 25th March, 1854, the master of the schooner Mary Eddy, then at New Orleans, received on board his vessel 102 hogsheads of sugar and 21 of syrup, to be carried by sea to Charleston, South Carolina, and there (delivered to Mordecai & Co., merchants of that place. The bill of lading contained the usual clause as to the payment of freight. The vessel reached Charleston safely on the 81st of March, and the master gave notice to Mordecai & Co. of her arrival and of the sugar and syrup on board for them;…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
delivered . the opinion of the court.
Substance of the allegations of the libel setting forth the cause of action was, that certain merchants at New Orleans, ou the 25th day of March, 1854, shipped ou board the schooner Mary .Eddy, then lying in that port, one hundred and two hogsheads of sugars, for which the master gave a bill of lading to the shippers, and that he contracted to transport the sugars from that port to the port of Charleston, and there to deliver the same to the appellants, in good order and condition, saving and excepting ouly the dangers and accidents of the seas and…
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- The MiddlesexU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1857