The G. R. Booth
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM: THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. Upon an appeal from a decree of the District Court of tbe United States for the Southern District of New York, dismissing a libel in admiralty by the American Sugar Refining Company against the steamship Gr. R. Booth, for damage to cargo (64 Fed. Rep. 878), the Circuit Court of: Appeals certified to this court the following statement of facts and question of law: “ On July 14, 1891, the steamship Gr.
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CERTIFICATE FROM: THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. Upon an appeal from a decree of the District Court of tbe United States for the Southern District of New York, dismissing a libel in admiralty by the American Sugar Refining Company against the steamship Gr. R. Booth, for damage to cargo (64 Fed. Rep. 878), the Circuit Court of: Appeals certified to this court the following statement of facts and question of law: “ On July 14, 1891, the steamship Gr. R. Booth, a large seaworthy steel vessel, was lying at the dock in the waters of the harbor of New York, discharging a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This was a libel against the steamship G. E. Booth, for damage done to sugar, part of her cargo, under the following circumstances : Another part of the cargo consisted of twenty cases of detonators, being copper caps packed with fulminate of mercury for exploding dynamite or gun-cotton. "While she was being unladen .at the dock in her port of destination, one of the cases of detonators exploded, purely by accident, and. without any fault or negligence on the part of any one engaged in carrying or discharging the cargo. The explosion made a large hole in the side of the ship, through which…
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