Legal Opinion

Clyde S. S. Co. v. Whaley

Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Decided February 2, 1916No. 1367PublishedCited by 7 opinions

In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Action by the Clyde Steamship Company against W. B. Whaley and others.

1Opinion of the Court

WOODS, Circuit Judge.

The Clyde Steamship Company brought this action to recover $3,592.52, the value of 38 bales of burlaps stored with W. B. Whaley and A. Iiasell Heyward, doing business as ware-housemen under the name of Boyce’s Wharf. By consent the cause was tried without a jury. The District Judge found that the plaintiff should recover nothing, and that the defendant should recover $391.50, its undenied counterclaim for storage. Judgment was entered accordingly, and the cause comes here on error assigned in the rejection of the plaintiff’s claim.'

The facts are not in dispute. In…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Hanrick v. PatrickSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  2. Vanderford v. Farmers' & Mechanics' National BankCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1907
  3. Steele's Lessee v. SpencerSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
  4. Kingan & Co. v. SilversIndiana Court of Appeals · 1894
  5. Insurance Co. v. KigerSupreme Court of the United States · 1881

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