Brittan v. Barnaby
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court .of the United States for the districts of California, sitting in admiralty. . It was a libel filed by Brittan, under the circumstances stated. in the opinion of the court. The District Court dismissed the libel, and the Circuit Court affirmed the decree. The points only made by the- counsel can be noticed.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court .of the United States for the districts of California, sitting in admiralty. . It was a libel filed by Brittan, under the circumstances stated. in the opinion of the court. The District Court dismissed the libel, and the Circuit Court affirmed the decree. The points only made by the- counsel can be noticed. On the part of the appellant, they were the following: 1. The principle of mercantile law, that the consignee of the goods has a right to insist that they shall be discharged from the vessel, and that he may examine them before he makes himself…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
This caiise involves an important commercial principle, of daily recurrence in practice, which does not appear to be well understood and settled in Sap Francisco. Our decision will correct the misapprehension there in regard to the-delivery.: of merchandise by ship-owners, and the payment of freight for its .transportation.. The libellant was the owner and consignee of goods of á value exceéding four thousand dollars, which were shipped in good order and condition at New York, on board of the ship Alboni, to be carried and delivered in San Francisco, in the same order, at a rate of freight…
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