Clark v. Laidlaw

The intervenor, B. C. Clark, is appellant from a judgment of nonsuit. The facts of the case are these : The defendant Laidlaw, was the owner of a steamboat which he chartered to Maxon & Young, who put the defendant Gillet therein, as master. She was consigned to the plaintiff, F. Clark, in Havana, who instituted a suit against the present defendants on a bottomry-bond, given to him on the steamboat, by the other defendant Gillet, on an allegation that the charterers, not having the means to pay the expenses of the voyage, had surrendered her to the master, who, being unable to procure money…