Ralli v. Troop
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a libel in admiralty, filed May 16, 1889, in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by the charterers against the owners of the British bark J. AV.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a libel in admiralty, filed May 16, 1889, in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by the charterers against the owners of the British bark J. AV. Parker, of St. John, New Brunswick, alleging that pursuant to a charter-party, dated October 25, 1885, the libellants on February 16, 1886, loaded on the bark in the port of Calcutta, to be carried to the port of New York, at a certain rate of freight, a full cargo, consisting, among other things, of 7592 bales…
1Opinion of the Court
157 U.S. 386 (1895)
RALLI
v.
TROOP.
No. 46.
Supreme Court of United States.
Submitted April 27, 1894.
Decided April 1, 1895.
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
Mr. Sidney Chubb for appellants.
Mr. Harrington Putnam for appellees.
MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The law of general average, coming down to us from remote antiquity, is derived from the law of Rhodes, through the law of Rome, and is part of the maritime law, or law of the sea, as distinguished from the municipal law, or law of the land.
The…
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