The Sarah J. Weed
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Supplies and repairs. The Sarah J. Weed was a steamboat built and owned in New York, and employed in and near the harbor of the city of New' York in towing vessels and similar duty from October, 1874, when she was new, until (June, July) 1876. In that month the steamboat was sent to the Kennebec river in Maine, and was there employed during the remainder of the summer.
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Supplies and repairs. The Sarah J. Weed was a steamboat built and owned in New York, and employed in and near the harbor of the city of New' York in towing vessels and similar duty from October, 1874, when she was new, until (June, July) 1876. In that month the steamboat was sent to the Kennebec river in Maine, and was there employed during the remainder of the summer. She came to Boston in the latter part of 1S76, where some repairs and supplies were furnished, and where she was afterwards arrested and sold at the suit of material-men, the owners having failed to stipulate for her. The sum…
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
I will examine the disputed claims in their order on the docket.
Canfield & Quintard’s claim: This firm claim a considerable balance of account for coal and wood supplied to the steamboat at their wharf at Jersey City. The custom was for the master to order and receive his supplies from time to time as he needed them, and once a month the bills were settled with the ship’s agent, Mr. Weed, in New York. Weed occasionally paid cash, but more often gave his own notes to the order of Canfield & Quintard, which the latter would usually procure to be discounted.
1. Jersey City…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Crawford v. CollinsNew York Supreme Court · 1866
- Phillips v. MyersNew York Supreme Court · 1865
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- Spice v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1922