Legal Opinion

Wood v. Hubbard

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided July 9, 1894No. 2PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.- This was a libel by Andrew «T. Hubbard, master of the schooner Percy W. Schall, against Richard Wood, George Wood, Walter Wood, and Stuart Wood, trading as E. D. Wood & Co., for freight and damages. The district court' rendered a decree for libelant.

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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.- This was a libel by Andrew «T. Hubbard, master of the schooner Percy W. Schall, against Richard Wood, George Wood, Walter Wood, and Stuart Wood, trading as E. D. Wood & Co., for freight and damages. The district court' rendered a decree for libelant. Respondents appealed. ■ The following opinion was rendered in the district court, November 10, 1893, on the hearing upon exceptions to the report of the special commissioner in the case: Butler, District Judge. There are but two exceptions which call…

1Opinion of the Court

GREEN, District Judge.

This is an appeal from the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania. The libel, which was to recover freight and damages, was filed by the master of the schooner Percy W. Schall, under the following circumstances: The appellants and respondents below are manufacturers of iron pipe at Millville, iu the state of New Jersey. It appears that they had entered into a contract with the firm of Fail.banks, Morse & Co. to manufacture for them, and to deliver at Smyrna, Fla., a large quantity of iron pipe and fittings, which were to be used in…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. The Gazelle and CargoSupreme Court of the United States · 1888

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Natures Way Marine, LLC v. Everclear of Ohio, Ltd.District Court, S.D. Alabama · 2014
  2. Philadelphia & Reading Ry. Co. v. Peale, Peacock & Kerr, Inc.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1905

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