In re Cargo of 3,408 Tons of Pocahontas Coal
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine. Suits in admiralty by Alexander Ross, in behalf of himself and as agent of the owners of the schooner Helen W. Martin, against a cargo of 3,408 tons of Pocahontas coal, and by John G. Crowley, for himself and as agent for the owners of the schooner Van Allen’s Bough ton, against a cargo of 3,639 tons of Pocahontas coal; Samuel D. Warren & Co., claimants.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine. Suits in admiralty by Alexander Ross, in behalf of himself and as agent of the owners of the schooner Helen W. Martin, against a cargo of 3,408 tons of Pocahontas coal, and by John G. Crowley, for himself and as agent for the owners of the schooner Van Allen’s Bough ton, against a cargo of 3,639 tons of Pocahontas coal; Samuel D. Warren & Co., claimants. Decrees for libelants, and claimants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
These appeals relate to two cargoes of coal shipped to Portland, Me., consigned to the appellants, S. D. Warren & Co. There are no further details as to the place of consignment. The cargoes are to be taken, therefore, as consigned generally to the port of Portland, in which port are all the places of discharge of coal by water named in this litigation, and other places. S. D. Warren & *549Co. liad no place of discharge owned by them or under their special control. The cargoes were intended for shipment by rail to their mills, a few miles in the interior, at Yarmouth, which…
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