Ex Parte Goodwin

The plaintiffs on an allegation that a quantity of curb-stone, imported in their ship, was abandoned by the consignee, obtained a provisional seizure, as a preliminary proceeding to a sale of it for the payment of the freight. The consignee, Geraghty, filed an exception to the suit, denying that the curb-stone had beed abandoned, and contesting the legality of proceeding against it; and, in case the action should be sustained, he claimed in reconvention damages on account of the stone having, through the neglect of the master and sailors, been considerably injured, by being smeared with tar.…