The Nathaniel Hooper
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
This was a suit for salvage, brought by appeal from the decree of the district, court, awarding a salvage of one moiety of the ship Nathaniel Hooper, and cargo, to the salvors. After the appeal, the amount of salvage was adjusted between the libellants and the claimants. and the decree of the district court was, by consent, modified accordingly.
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This was a suit for salvage, brought by appeal from the decree of the district, court, awarding a salvage of one moiety of the ship Nathaniel Hooper, and cargo, to the salvors. After the appeal, the amount of salvage was adjusted between the libellants and the claimants. and the decree of the district court was, by consent, modified accordingly. The whole salvage awarded on the ship and cargo, was. by agreement, $25,000. The claim, now brought before the court, was that of the owners of the ship, for freight to be paid to them on the remainder of the cargo, not exhausted by the claim for…
1Opinion of the Court
STORT, Circuit Justice.
Such are the most material facts, in the present case, which are somewhat complicated, but all of which have been deemed important to be brought to the view of the court upon the present occasion. The question of freight has been accordingly argued under two aspects: (1) Whether a full freight is due upon any, and, if any, upon what part of the cargo; (2) if a full freight is not due, whether a pro rata freight is due upon any, and if upon any, upon what part of the cargo. There is certainly a great deal of novelty in some of the circumstances, under which the claim is…
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- Callender v. Insurance Co. of North AmericaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1813
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