Greene v. . White

The proposition "that if the value of the vessel and her net freight together, did not exceed $3,000, the plaintiffs were not entitled to recover," was sound, and the judge erred in refusing so to charge the jury. The judge erred in the charge actually made, "that if they should assess the value of the vessel at the contract price, or less than that, then no damages could be given to the plaintiffs on account of the vessel, but, that the plaintiffs would nevertheless be entitled to a verdict for such net freight as the jury should find had been made on this trip." The contract for the…