United States v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

In this suit on a bond, due execution and breach were found by the court below, but on proceedings to chancerize the bond a verdict and judgment were entered for the defendant. The ease comes up on agreed facts, which may be summarized as follows:

On January 17,1923, the British schooner Dorin was picked up in distress about 200 miles from Nantucket Lightship, and towed into the port of Providence, whore, on Ja.nuary 19,1923, she was duly entered and á copy of her manifest filed. This manifest, sworn to by Brin L. Coats, as master, showed the schooner was loaded with a…