Legal Opinion

Relyea v. New Haven Rolling Mill Co.

Supreme Court of Connecticut

Decided September 15, 1875PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Libel for freight money; tried in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, August Term, 1873. The facts of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the Court

Shipman, J.*

This is a libel in personam in favor of the owner and master of the sloop Carver to recover freight money from the respondents. On or about the 8th day of August, 1872, Pettee & Mann engaged the libellant to transport in his sloop a cargo of scrap iron from New York to New Haven. The iron was weighed upon the wharf at New York, and delivered on board the vessel by Pettee & Mann. The cap*580tain, on August 8th, 1872, signed three bills of lading, wliéreby he acknowledged to have received on board the sloop one hundred and nine tons and a specified fraction of a ton, and agreed to…

2Cited by8 opinions

  1. Wichita Savings Bank v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé RailroadSupreme Court of Kansas · 1878
  2. Vanderbilt v. Ocean S. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914
  3. Robinson, McLeod & Co. v. Memphis & Charleston R.United States Circuit Court · 1881
  4. Smith v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1895
  5. Alabama Great Southern Ry. Co. v. Commonwealth Cotton Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1906

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