Kenedy v. The R. D. Bibber
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. In Admiralty. Libel by Mifflin Kenedy against the schooner R. D. Bibber. Decree dismissing the libel. Libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, District Judge.
The schooner R. D. Bibber received in Philadelphia a cargo of 780 tons of steel rails, to be delivered in good condition at Galveston. Tex., subject to the usual exception of the “dangers of the seas.” With this cargo she drew 18 feet 9 inches aft and 13 feet 6 inches forward. She reached the outer harbor of Galveston on the 17th of January, 1887, and came to anchor. On a voyage a few months before she had taken a cargo of 780 tons of rails to the same port, and, without lightering, had passed over the bar of that port, safely, into the wharf. On this second trip her…
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