Howland v. Greenway
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York. It was' a libel filed in the District Court, sitting in admiralty, against the barque Griffin and her owners, by Greenway and Dickson, on a contract of affreightment. The circumstances are stated in the opinion of the court.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the southern district of New York. It was' a libel filed in the District Court, sitting in admiralty, against the barque Griffin and her owners, by Greenway and Dickson, on a contract of affreightment. The circumstances are stated in the opinion of the court. The District'Court passed the following decree: This cause having been heard on the exceptions to the commissioner’s report, and argued by the advocate for .the respective parties— On reading the report of George E. Betts, Esq., United States commissioner, to whom the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Campbell
This was a libel, in the District Court of the United States for the southern district of New York, against the barque Griffin and her owners, on a contract of affreightment by the appellees. The libel stated, that in November, 1852, at New York, there was shipped on that barque, of which the appellants are owners, one hundred and thirty-two boxes of chairs and furniture, to be delivered at the ship’s tackles at the port of Rio de Janeiro, to the appellees, according to the terms of a bill of lading. That the regulations of the port of Rio de Janeiro require the owner or master of a vessel…
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