Legal Opinion
Balfour v. The Director
District Court, D. Oregon
Decided February 18, 1888PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Admiralty.
1Opinion of the CourtDeady, J.
This suit was brought by the libelants, Alexander Balfour, Stephen Williamson, Robert Balfour, Alexander Guthrie, and Robert B. Foreman, doing business in this port as Balfour, Guthrie & Co., against the British bark Director, her master, William D. Bogart, and 16,868 bags of wheat.
The libel prayed for process against said bark, wheat, and master, to the end that the first might be sold to pay the damages of the libelants; that the second “might be delivered to the libelants,” free of all charges and liens; that the master may be restrained from interfering with the wheat during the pendency…
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