Post v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an' appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York, sitting in, admiralty.' " It was a libel filed by the owners of the ship Richmond and cargo, under circumstances which are particularly stated in . the opinion of the court'. The District Court dismissed the libel, thereby affirming the sales.
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This was an' appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York, sitting in, admiralty.' " It was a libel filed by the owners of the ship Richmond and cargo, under circumstances which are particularly stated in . the opinion of the court'. The District Court dismissed the libel, thereby affirming the sales. The Circuit Court reversed this decree, and declared the sales invalid, but that the respondents were entitled tó a moiety of the net proceeds., in the New York market, of the articles brought in their respective ships, and sold by the said…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greer
delivered the opinion of the eourt.. The libellants, owners of the ship Richmond and cargo, filed the libel in this cáse for an adjustment of salvage... They allege, that -the ship Richmond left the port of Cold Spring, Long Island, on a whaling voyage to the North and South Pacific Ocean,- in July, 1846; that on the 2d. of August, 1849, in successful prosecution of her .voyage, and having nearly a foil cargo, she was run upon some rocks on the coast of Behring’s Straits, about a half mile from shore; that while so disabled, the whaling ships Elizabeth Erith and the Panama, being in. the same…
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