Granger v. Campbell

By the court:

Slidell, J.

The plaintiff is owner of the ship Epaminondas; and this suit grows out of a contract made by Gifney and Lovell, brokers for one Simpson, to furnish cargo to the amount of one thousand bales of cotton, at a stipulated rate of freight. After two hundred and five bales had been delivered to the ship, Simpson absconded, leaving his vendors, Bradley, Wilson 8f Co., unpaid. Part of the cotton was still in the cotton press, and the ship had acquired no control over it. The whole of the cotton, both that on ship-board and that in the cotton press, was seized, under writs sued…