Pacific Coast S. S. Co. v. Ferguson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California. This was a bill in personam by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company against Eben W. Ferguson and others. From a decree of the district court dismissing the libel for want of jurisdiction (70 Fed. 870), the company appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company, a corporation, filed its libel in personam against Moore, Ferguson & Co., the appellees herein, to recover the sum of $251.15, the balance alleged to be due on a maritime contract for the transportation of 2,448 sacks of barley from Moss Landing to San Diego, at the agreed rate of $4.35 per ton, upon which it was alleged that $339.38 only had been paid. The answer denied that the agreed rate was $4.35 per ton, but alleged that the same was $3.35 per ton, and pleaded the payment of $339.38, and a tender of the remainder of the…
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