Devato v. Eight Hundred & Twenty-Three Barrels of Plumbago

Bbcwn, J,

This libel was filed to recover the sum of $2,888.63, freighs alleged to be due upon 828 barrels of plumbago, brought on board the bark Guiseppe Mazzini, from Colombo, in the island of Ceylo i, and discharged at Pierrepont’s stores, Brooklyn, immediately adjae mt to the Wall-street ferry. The plumbago was shipped under a bill of lading which describes the bark as “bound for New York,” and t íat the goods were to be “delivered at the aforesaid port of New York’ on payment of freight, etc. There wore numerous other con-signe ;s of different portions of the cargo, under various bills of…