Wood v. The Sallie C. Morton

NIXON, District Judge.

The libel is filed in this case against the schooner Sallie C. Morton to recover the losses sustained by the libellants for the non-delivery of portions of two several cargoes shipped on board of said vessel at different times in the fall of 1877. The libel alleges that the first shipment consisted of sixty-eight tons and 2,085 lbs. of iron pipe put on board at the port of Millville, in the state of New Jersey, on the fifteenth day of September, 1877, to be carried and transported by said schooner to the ports of Green Island and Troy in the state of New York, eight tons…