Gentilli v. The Sidonian

This is an action to recover damages for a breach of a contract of affreightment. The libel sets forth a bill of lading, issued for tbe transportation in the steam-ship Sidonian of 1,500 boxes of lemons from the port of Genoa to the port of Now York. It also avers a payment of the freight, and a failure to deliver the lemons in like good order and condition as they were shipped. The libel further avers that the *806damage to the lemons arose from the length of the voyage, owing to the fact that the steam-ship, after leaving Genoa, called at Palermo, in Sicily, when it had been agreed that she…