The Portsmouth
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case was this: The Salt Company of Onondaga shipped at Buffalo, on the propeller Portsmouth, a large quantity of salt for Chicago, under a bill of lading in the usual form, but containing an exception of the dangers of the navigation.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case was this: The Salt Company of Onondaga shipped at Buffalo, on the propeller Portsmouth, a large quantity of salt for Chicago, under a bill of lading in the usual form, but containing an exception of the dangers of the navigation. On the 9th of October, 1866, the propeller, with the salt on board, reached Pox Island, in Lake Michigan, and about seven o’clock in the evening of the same day left it, bound directly for Chicago, using both sail and steam. The weather was foggy, and the wind was blowing from the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The contract of the appellant was to deliver the two thousand barrels of salt at Chicago to the consignee named, “ the dangers of lake navigation only excepted,” and whether the failure to deliver was caused by the excepted dangers is now the only question. A loss by a jettison occasioned by a peril of the sea is, in ordinary cases, a loss by perils of the sea. But it- is well settled that, if a jettison of a cargo, or a part of it, is rendered necessary by any fault or breach of contract of the master or owners of the vessel, the jettison must be attributed to that fault, or breach of…
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