The Geapeshot
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana
This cause comes up for hearing on exceptions to the report of J. W. Gurley, master.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The libel was; filed upon a bottomry bond for supplies and repairs furnished the bark at Rio in the spring of 1858. The cause had been once to the supreme court of the United States, which reversed the decision of the circuit court The circuit court had rendered a decree for the entire sum secured by the bot-tomry bond. The supreme court was of opinion that some of the items in the bills secured by the bonds were not subjects of bot-tomry, and that the actual necessity for some of the supplies and repairs was not shown. That court, therefore, reversed the decision of the…
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