Beers v. Board of Health

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The plaintiff sues the Board of Health, and the individual members thereof, to recover $3,598 as damages for injury to a cargo of fruit caused by fumigating the vessel at the quarantine station.

The schooner came from Port Antonio, Jamaica, where she took in this cargo of bananas in March, 1878, and arrived at the quarantine station April 3d. There was no yellow fever at that Port when she left, and no disease of any kind on the schooner then, or duriug the voyage, or at her arrival. The master of the schooner had a clear bill of health. The…