The Caledonia
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR.THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. This was a libel in admiralty by a shipper of cattle against the steamship Caledonia to recover damages caused by the breaking of her shaft. The District Court decreed in favor of libellant, 50 Fed. Eep. 567, and claimants appealed.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR.THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. This was a libel in admiralty by a shipper of cattle against the steamship Caledonia to recover damages caused by the breaking of her shaft. The District Court decreed in favor of libellant, 50 Fed. Eep. 567, and claimants appealed. The Circuit Court found the following facts and conclusions of law: “ This was a libel in admiralty, in a cause of contract, civil and maritime, by a shipper of cattle against the steamship Caledonia, to recover damages caused by the breaking .of her shaft. “The Caledonia was one…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fullee
In The Edwin I. Morrison, 153 U. S. 199, 210, the language of Mr. Justice Gray, delivering the opinion of the Circuit Court in the present case, was quoted with approval, to this effect: “In every contract for the carriage of goods by sea, unless otherwise expressly stipulated, there is a- warranty on the part of the shipowner that the ship is seaworthy at the time of beginning her voyage, and not merely that he does not know her to be unseaworthv, or that he has used his best efforts to make her seaworthy. The warranty is absolute that the ship is, or shall be, in fact seaworthy at that…
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