Price v. Ship Uriel

This is an action for damages on 780 bundles of iron, being bar, hoop, band and horse-shoe iron, consigned to the plaintiffs, who are agents of Semple & Bonner, of St. Louis, and shipped from Liverpool on defendants’ vessel.

There was judgment against the defendants, who have taken the present appeal, and rely on the following points:

1st. That any loss or damage the iron may have sustained arose from a peril of the sea, and not from bad stowage or from any fault or want of skill or care on the part of defendants.

2d. That the assessment of damages by the lower court is not correct and legal.

On…