Blossom v. Smith
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York.] In admiralty. This was a libel in person-am [by Benjamin Blossom and Charles J. Blossom against Jonas Smith and Paul Hulse], filed in the district court, to recover the value of a quantity of resin. After a' decree in that court in favor of the libel-lants [Case No. 1,500], the respondents appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The resin in question in this case was shipped at Wilmington, North Carolina, in a vessel belonging to the respondents, and was consigned to the libellants. There were several other consignments of resin by the same vessel. She arrived at New York on the 20th of May, 1853, and hauled over to Mitchell’s yard, at Brooklyn, to land her cargo, where the different consignments of resin were delivered,' except that consignment to the libellants. The agent of Mitchell refused to permit this consignment to be landed at that yard. The libellants were notified of this by the…
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