King v. Shepherd
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] This was a suit in the admiralty in. per-sonam, with an accompanying foreign attachment.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] This was a suit in the admiralty in. per-sonam, with an accompanying foreign attachment. The libel set forth in substance, that the libellants [James G. King and others] were the owners of a certain quantity of gold coin of the value of $10,000. That on the 1st of November last, the ship North America, whereof the respondents [George Shepherd and others] were owners, and George S. Hall was master, lay at the port of New York, bound on a voyage to Mobile. That the libellants on the same day made a contract…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This cause has been elaborately argued on both sides, and in its actual presentation it embraces questions •of some novelty and of no inconsiderable importance. The suit is an admiralty suit in personam, founded upon a maritime contract .and shipment under a bill of lading of a box of gold sovereigns of the value of ten thousand dollars — shipped on the first of November, 1S42. on board of the ship North America, of which one George S. Hall was master and part owner, at the port of New York on a voyage from thence to Mobile. The bill of lading was in the usual form, and…
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