Legal Opinion
Butler v. Kansas
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided May 10, 1898No. 876PublishedCited by 1 opinion
This was a libel in rem by Thomas Butler and others against the steamship Kansas to recover for the loss of goods shipped.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
This is a libel in rem to establish a maritime lien upon the steamship Kansas for failure to deliver at Liverpool 32 barrels of old metal. ■ The Kansas is one of the Warren Line of steamships (so called), running between Boston and Liverpool, and was advertised to sail, and did sail, from Boston, January 26, 1897. On January 23d a bill of lading was delivered to the libelants, the material parts whereof are as follows:
“Received, in apparent good order and condition, from Thomas Butler & Co., to be transported by the good British steamship Kansas, now lying in the port of…
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- Saunders v. Bluefield Waterworks & Imp. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Virginia · 1893
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