Cheraw & Salisbury R. R. v. Broadnax
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county : Of July Term 1884, No. 156. Foreign attachment, by Jane Broadnax, et al., owners of the schooner “ Mattie A. Hand,” against The Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad Company defendant, and the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, garnishee, upon a general average bond made by defendant to the Master or W. Nelson Jarvis as agent for the plaintiff.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas No. 4, of Philadelphia county : Of July Term 1884, No. 156. Foreign attachment, by Jane Broadnax, et al., owners of the schooner “ Mattie A. Hand,” against The Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad Company defendant, and the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, garnishee, upon a general average bond made by defendant to the Master or W. Nelson Jarvis as agent for the plaintiff. As the bond was not under seal the plaintiffs declared in assumpsit and filed the common counts with special counts averring that the said schooner being staunch and seaworthy set…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
This is an action upon a general average bond, made by the defendants, the Gheraw & Salisbury Railroad Company, to the plaintiffs, who are the owners of the schooner “ Mattie A. Hand.” This schooner on the 9th January, 1880, sailed from Philadelphia, bound for Charleston, South Carolina, with a cargo, consisting of canned goods, paint, putty and steel rails. The steel rails weighing 545^^- tons, valued at $38,171.56, had been purchased b\7, and were consigned to the defendants. From the recitals of the defendant’s bond and other eyidence in the cause, it appears that on the 21st January,…
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