Norton v. The Richard Winslow
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This was a libel by J. Henry Norton and others against the schooner Richard Winslow’ to recover damages to a cargo of corn. The circuit court dismissed the libel with costs (67 Fed. 259), and the libelants appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. This was a libel by J. Henry Norton and others against the schooner Richard Winslow’ to recover damages to a cargo of corn. The circuit court dismissed the libel with costs (67 Fed. 259), and the libelants appeal. On tlie Kith day of November, 1893, Henry Norton and Edward S. Worthington, the libelants, shipped on board the schooner Richard Winslow, then lying at the port of Chicago, a cargo of white com amounting to 59,779-iz/aa bushels, to be carried by the schooner from the port of Chicago to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, Circuit Judge
The contract here was dual in character. It contemplated a carriage by sea from the port of Chicago to the port of Buffalo, and thereafter storage of the cargo in the vessel at the port of Buffalo until the opening of navigation. Such contracts have become frequent upon the Great Lakes with respect to the forwarding of the crops; the ship being thereby assured of a cargo just before the close of navigation, and the shipper obtaining cheap or free,storage dur*428ing the closed season of-navigation, and being also thereby enabled to reach the seaboard immediately upon the opening of navigation. The…
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