Legal Opinion

Bowen v. Peters

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided December 7, 1880Published

ON EXCEPTIONS. The opinion states the case. cited: 16 Conn. 12 ; 36 N. Y. 26 ; 23 Maine, 461; 2 Paine, C. C. 202 ; 17 Maine, 147 ; 45 Maine, 590; Abbott on Ship. 4th Am. ed. 76, 69; Putnam v. Wood, 3 Mass. 485 ; 50 Maine, 447; 5 Selden, (9 N. Y.) 235; Elder v. Larrabee, 45 Maine, 590; 8 Wend. 144; 1 Parsons on Ship. 101. The vessel was in a home port where the master could not bind the owners.

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ON EXCEPTIONS. The opinion states the case. cited: 16 Conn. 12 ; 36 N. Y. 26 ; 23 Maine, 461; 2 Paine, C. C. 202 ; 17 Maine, 147 ; 45 Maine, 590; Abbott on Ship. 4th Am. ed. 76, 69; Putnam v. Wood, 3 Mass. 485 ; 50 Maine, 447; 5 Selden, (9 N. Y.) 235; Elder v. Larrabee, 45 Maine, 590; 8 Wend. 144; 1 Parsons on Ship. 101. The vessel was in a home port where the master could not bind the owners. Jordan v. Young, 37 Maine, 276. Charles Peters, the husband of the other owner, was not the ship’s husband; two of the owners never knew of his acting or assuming to act in the affairs of the vessel. 1…

1Opinion of the CourtSymoNDS, J.

Assumpsit for the price of articles furnished to the schooner Globe, by the plaintiffs, ship chandlers in Bangor. The articles were necessary to make the schooner seaworthy; they were delivered on board and became a part of the vessel and outfit. They were ordered by the master and by Charles Peters, husband and agent of the first named defendant, a resident of New York, and the owner of thirteen-sixteenths of the schooner, who admits her liability by default. The defendant, Gibbs, a resident of Bangor, from which port the vessel hailed, was then the. owner of two-sixteenths, and Robinson,…

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