Bernier v. Phipps
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland. This was a libel by J. L. Phipps & Co. against the steamship Thames (J. E. Bernier, master), in which there was a decree for libelants, and respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HUGHES, District Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty from the district court of Maryland. The decree awarded the libelants damages, to the amount of $16,185 and costs, suffered on a shipment of 5,000 barrels of flour from Baltimore to Bio de Janeiro in the winter of 1890-91. The questions of fact arising in the case are very numerous, and they have been strenuously contested at every point. The evidence taken is unusually voluminous. The briefs are elaborate and litigious. The work of examining it all minutely has been laborious, protracted, and tedious. The case itself is a…
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