Legal Opinion
One Hundred & Seventy-Five Tons of Coal
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 15, 1878PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In admiralty.
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
On the 18th of July, 1876, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company shipped on board of a canal-boat owned by the libellant, at Perth Am-boy, New Jersey, 230 tons of coal, under a bill of lading, which bound the boat to deliver'the coal at Jersey City, New Jersey, unto Matthiesen & Werchers “or their assigns, he or they paying freight for the ■same at the rate of thirty-five cents per ton.” The bill of lading states that the coal is shipped on account of the New York Fuel & Grate Bar Company. Matthiesen & Werchers carried on a sugar refinery at Jersey City. This coal was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cross v. . BeardNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
3Cited by4 opinions
- Clark v. Five Hundred & Five Thousand Feet of LumberCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1894
- Lindsay, Gracie & Co. v. CusimanoU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana · 1882
- The Mary Riley v. Three Thousand Railroad TiesDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1889
- Addicks v. Three Hundred & Fifty-Four Tons Crude KainitDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1885