Hard v. The Enchantress
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
This was a libel by Anson W. Hard and George C. Rand against the steamer Enchantress to recover for short delivery of coffee. The district court dismissed the libel (58 Fed. 910), and libelants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
The libelants, composing the firm of Hard & Rand, as indorsees of certain bills of lading, filed in the district court for the southern district of New York their libel in rem, to recover from the steamer Enchantress the value of 35 bags of coffee shipped on board said steamer at Victoria, Brazil, on or about September 29, 1892, and not delivered to the libelants upon the arrival of the vessel in New York, on November 4, 1892. At the time of the shipment, the Enchantress had been chartered to the United States & Brazil Mail Steamship Company by a demise charter, and was…
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