Lord v. Goodall. etc., Steamship Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of California
Action [by I. W. Lord] against the owner of the vessel to recover the value of goods lost by the wreck of the steamship Ventura. The jury was instructed in accordance with the views expressed in the following opinion, and a verdict was returned for the defendants.
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Action [by I. W. Lord] against the owner of the vessel to recover the value of goods lost by the wreck of the steamship Ventura. The jury was instructed in accordance with the views expressed in the following opinion, and a verdict was returned for the defendants. The testimony disclosed the following state of facts: The steamship Ventura, of about 800 tons burden, from January 22, 1875, to April 20, 1876, was owned by defendant, a corporation formed under the laws of the state of California, and was running regularly upon the Pacific Ocean, as a passenger and freight ship, between the ports…
1Opinion of the CourtSawyer, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). Upon the facts as stated there can be no doubt, since the decision in the Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. [77 U. S.] 565, that the steamer Ventura was engaged in both inter-state and foreign commerce; and, as an instrument of such commerce, was subject to the regulating power of congress, notwithstanding the fact that the particular goods in question were passing only from port to port within the state of California, and constituted a portion of its domestic commerce. In the case cited the supreme court, in relation to the vessel then in question, says:
“So far as she was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hill Manufacturing Co. v. Providence & New York Steamship Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
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