Dennis v. Slyfield
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. This is a libel against the propeller White Star, the barge Eva S. Robinson, and also against Luther L. Slyfield, as owner of said vessels, for a breach of a contract civil and maritime.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. This is a libel against the propeller White Star, the barge Eva S. Robinson, and also against Luther L. Slyfield, as owner of said vessels, for a breach of a contract civil and maritime. The libelants, being large dealers in lumber, and anticipating that they would have for shipment during the season of 1899 about 15,000,000 feet of lumber, aver that they entered into an agreement with the respondent Slyfield, as owner of the propeller White Star and the barge Eva S. Robinson, by which Slyfield agreed…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
1. The appellees have insisted that we cannot look into the action of the court below in sustaining the demurrer or exception filed to the original libel, because the appeal was not allowed until more than six months thereafter. The transcript does not show that any decree whatever was entered either sustaining or overruling the exceptions to the original libel. But assuming the decree to have been entered in accordance with the opinion filed February I, 1901, it was not a final decree, for it gave libelants leave to file an amended libel, of which they availed themselves. Subsequently an…
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