Baxter v. Leland
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York. [In admiralty. Libel by Sylvester Baxter and others against Leland, Adams & Co. The district court rendered a decree for li-bellants. Baxter v. Leland, Case No. 1,124. Respondents appeal.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the southern district of New York. [In admiralty. Libel by Sylvester Baxter and others against Leland, Adams & Co. The district court rendered a decree for li-bellants. Baxter v. Leland, Case No. 1,124. Respondents appeal. This was an appeal from the district court, where Sylvester Baxter and others, owners of the ship Cleone, filed a libel in personam against Leland, Adams & Co., to recover the freight and primage on a quantity of flour transported for the respondents from New-Orleans to New-York in that vessel. The principal ground of…
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The evidence is conclusive in favor of the libellants, that the stowage of the cargo was according to the well known and well established custom and usage in the case of a general ship in the trade from New-Orleans to New-York, carrying the products of the country which are usually shipped from that port; and this, in respect not only to the manner of stowage, but also to the different articles and products stowed together in the hold of the vessel—such as the stowage of barrels of flour and bags of corn upon the top of hogsheads of sugar. The most experienced…
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