Sloo v. Law
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Bill in equity b.v Albert G. Sloo and Elwood Fisher against George Law and others.] This was a motion for a provisional injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
INGERSOLL. District Judge.
By an act of congress, passed on the 3d of March. 1847 (9 Stat. 187), it was made the duty of the secretary of the navy, to contract, on the part of the government, with A. G. Sloo, one of the plaintiffs, for the transportation of the United States mail from New York to New Orleans and back, twice a month, touching at Charleston, (if practicable). Savannah, and Havana, and from Havana to Chagres and back, twice a month; and it was provided, that said mail should be transported in at least five steamships of not less than fifteen hundred tons burthen, to be propelled…
2Cited by8 opinions
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- Petrie v. BadenochMichigan Supreme Court · 1894
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