Ward v. Chamberlain
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up on a certificate of division in opinion between the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern ^District of Ohio. ■ Tbs complainants, on the 12th day of November, A. D. 1856. upon ippeal from the District Court, obtained a decree in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio, against the defendants, Philo Chamberlain and John H Crawford, in a proceeding by libel for damages sustained by the libellants by…
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This case came up on a certificate of division in opinion between the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern ^District of Ohio. ■ Tbs complainants, on the 12th day of November, A. D. 1856. upon ippeal from the District Court, obtained a decree in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio, against the defendants, Philo Chamberlain and John H Crawford, in a proceeding by libel for damages sustained by the libellants by a collision on the waters of Lake Erie, between the steamer Atlantic, belonging to the libellants, and the propeller…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
This is a bill in equity, and the cáse comes before the Court on a certificate of .division in ■ opinion between the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. According to the transcript the bill of complaint sets forth that the complainants, on the 12th day of November, 1856, upon appeal from the District Court of the United States, obtained a decree in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio for the sum of $36,000 against the two respondents first named, in a proceeding by libel, filed in the District Court qn the 27th day of October,…
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