The Kalorama
Supreme Court of the United States
The case was exactly the same in both these appeals; which were accordingly argued with one set of briefs, on one set of depositions, contained in one record; the appeals having been, in fact, regarded at the bar as presenting throughout identically the same points.
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The case was exactly the same in both these appeals; which were accordingly argued with one set of briefs, on one set of depositions, contained in one record; the appeals having been, in fact, regarded at the bar as presenting throughout identically the same points. The case was thus: Morgan, of New York, owning the steamer Kalorama, belonging to that port, and Comstock, of the same place, owning the Custer, belonging to the port of Georgetown, D. C., agreed with one Pendergast, of Baltimore, Md., who was disposed to purchase both steamers, that he should run them for two trips between…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
deliyered an opinion of the court in each of the cases, thus:
I. In the Kalorama.
Advances for repairs and supplies to the steamer' named in the pleadings were made by the libellants to an amount much larger than the sum claimed in the' libel, and allowed in the decree of the District Court.
■ Payments made before the suit was instituted were deducted from the claim as set forth in the libel, and it was- ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the District Court, that there was due to the libellants at the date of the decree the sum of five thousand one hundred and' thirty-two dollars and thirty-six…
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- The St. Jago De Cuba. Vinente, and OthersSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Taber v. United StatesU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1839
- The Paul BoggsDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1857
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