Gracie v. Palmer
Supreme Court of the United States
*Error to the Circuit Court for tbe Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the defendants in error against the plaintiffs in error, to recover back the sum of $10,500, paid under the circumstances stated in the following case, to be considered as a special verdict : On the 23d of October 1818, the defendants, being the owners of the ship America, chartered her to Hugh Chambers, by the following charter-party : “ This charter-party,…
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*Error to the Circuit Court for tbe Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the defendants in error against the plaintiffs in error, to recover back the sum of $10,500, paid under the circumstances stated in the following case, to be considered as a special verdict : On the 23d of October 1818, the defendants, being the owners of the ship America, chartered her to Hugh Chambers, by the following charter-party : “ This charter-party, indented, made and entered upon, this 23d day of October, in the year of our Lord 1818, between Archibald Gracie, William…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. — This is a writ of error from the circuit court of Pennsylvania, on a judgment, in which the defendants in this court were plaintiffs in the inferior court. The suit instituted in that court, was for the recovery of a sum of money paid under the following circumstances :
The Grades, being owners of the ship America, chartered her to one Chambers, on a voyage to India. Chambers accompanied the vessel, and, at Calcutta, put her up as a general ship, with notice, however, of his being charterer, not owner. Finding it difficult there to obtain…
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