The Styria, Scopinich v. Munroe
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. Pour libels in admiralty were filed in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York against the steamship Styria, to recover damages for the failure duly to deliver at New York different lots of sulphur, owned by the libellants, shipped on board the Styria at Port Erapedocle, the port of the town of Girgenti, in Sicily, April 21-24, 1898, and shortly afterwards…
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CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. Pour libels in admiralty were filed in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York against the steamship Styria, to recover damages for the failure duly to deliver at New York different lots of sulphur, owned by the libellants, shipped on board the Styria at Port Erapedocle, the port of the town of Girgenti, in Sicily, April 21-24, 1898, and shortly afterwards relanded at the port of shipment because -it. had become contraband of war. The facts were substantially undisputed, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice Shieas,
after stating tbe case, delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbe master of a ship is tbe person who is entrusted with the care and management of it, and the great trust reposed in him by the owners, and' the great authority which the law has vested in him, require on his part and for his own sake, no less than for the interest of his.employers, the-utmost fidelity and attention. Abbótt on Shipping, 7th Am. ed: 167.
It was well said by the District Judge in the present case, that “ though exceptions noted' in the bill of lading contemplate circumstances of war, and are…
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