Salmon v. The Serapis
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty Libel by an indorsee of a master’s draft against the vessel and the master personally to enforce payment of the draft.
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, J
The libel in this case was filed against the British steamship Senjpis, and George Dobson, her master, to recover £545.18.7, the amount of an obligation drawn by the master at Palermo, February 11, 1888, payable to the order of the charterer, Pietro Tassi, on arrival of the steamer at New York, pledging the ship for payment, and indorsed to the libelant. The obligation was a brief form of bottomry, given in settlement of differences between the charter money owing by Tassi for the hire of the vessel and the freight to be collected by the steamer upon the bills of lading on arrival at…
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