The Brig Collenberg
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a libel in the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the southern district of New York, filed by John S. Lawrence against the brig Lieutenant Admiral Collenberg, for damages suffered by a cargo of fruit shipped at Palermo for New York and injured by decay on the voyage. The owners of the vessel denied the right of the consignee of the cargo to recover the damages he claimed, and filed a cross-libel for freight, primage, general and particular average.
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This was a libel in the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the southern district of New York, filed by John S. Lawrence against the brig Lieutenant Admiral Collenberg, for damages suffered by a cargo of fruit shipped at Palermo for New York and injured by decay on the voyage. The owners of the vessel denied the right of the consignee of the cargo to recover the damages he claimed, and filed a cross-libel for freight, primage, general and particular average. The District Court dismissed the libel in the first suit, and in the other made a decree in favor of the ship-owners for the freight,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
These are appeals in admiralty, from the respective decrees of the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York., Both of the suits were founded upon the same transaction, and depend substantially upon the same facts.. One was a suit in rem against the brig L. A. Oollenberg, brought by the appellant, in which it was alleged that certain merchandise, consigned to the libellant, was shipped at the port of Palermo, on the twelfth day of December, 1855, on board the brig, in good order and condition, and that the master signed bills of lading, agreeing to deliver the…
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