Legal Opinion
The Bird of Paradise
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 18, 1867PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
72 U.S. 545
18 L.Ed. 662
5 Wall. 545
THE BIRD OF PARADISE.
December Term, 1866
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California, decreeing against a lien set up by ship-owners for freight, on libel filed against a cargo. The case was thus:
On the 16th March, 1863, Eccles, of Liverpool, chartered at that place from Taylor & Co., owners of the ship Bird of Paradise, that vessel, to carry a cargo of coal, of which Eccles was the owner, to San Francisco, California, at a rate agreed on per ton.
'The freight to be paid in Liverpool, on unloading and right delivery of the cargo,…
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