THOMAS M'MANUS.
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With reference to the defense of payment it is thought that the testimony of the libelant, enforced as it is by dates and memoranda, is entitled to greater weight than the somewhat loose denial of the master of the tug. There should be a decree in favor of the libelant for the amount demanded in the libel, with interest and costs.
THE THOMAS McMANUS.]
(District Court, E. D. New York. November 29, 1884.) 1. CARRIERS OF GOODS BY WATER-LIABILITY ROUTE-LIEN.
Persons in charge of a steam-boat in New York bound for Hudflon, N. Y., gave a receipt for cotton shipped on board, which was marked, " Canoe Uotton Mills, Valatie, N. Y.," with knowledge that it was intended to go from HUdson by rail to K., and that there full freight from N. Y. to K. was to be paid, which was to be divided between the steam-boat and the railroad in accordance with an understanding between them. Held, that the duty of .the steamboat as carrier was discharged by delivering the goods to the railroad at Hudson. SAME-EvIDENCE OF SPECIAL CONTRACT.
2.
There must be clear and satisfactory evidence of a special contract to exteUQ the liability of a steam-boat to the transportation and delivery of goods by a railroad beyond the place of the boat's destination, in order to charge the boat with a lieu for damages caused by the wrong delivery by the railroad.
BENEDICT, J. The receipt given by those in charge of the steamboat at the time of the shipment of the cotton does not amount to a bill of lading. It states no contract for the transportation of the cotton. It mentions no place aD the route of the steam-boat, or on the line of the ra,ilroad connecting at Hudson, for delivery of the cotton, and contains no language from which to infer a contract on the part of the owners of the steam-boat to transport the cotton beyond Hudson, the place of the steam-boat's destination. Nor can such a contract be inferred from the fact that the steam-boat made a connection at Hudson with a railroad running thence through Kinderhook, and received this cotton, marked, "Canoe Cotton Mills, Valatie, N. Y.," with knowledge that it was intended to go by the railroad from Hudson to Kinderhook, and that upon its delivery there freight was to be paid for the whole transportation from New York to Kinderhook, which freight would be divided between the railroad and the steamboat, in accordance with an understanding between them. A special contract to extend the liability of the steam-boat to the transportation and delivery of the cotton by a railroad, and at a place
Goodrich, Deady &: Platt, for libelant. Tenbroeck &; Vanorden, for claimant.
In Admiralty.
lReported by R. D. & Wyllys Benedict, of the New York bar.
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FEDERAL RErORTED.
beyond the place of the boat's destination, cannot be inferred from the facts proved in this case. Clear and satisfactory evidence of such a contract is required by the law, (lrlyric1c v. Michigan Gent. R. Co. 107 U. S. 102; S. C. 1 Sup. Ct. Rep. 425;) and certainly without such an agreement no lien upon the steam-boat was created by the act of the railroad in delivering the cotton to the Canoe Cotton Mills at Kinderhook without the shipper's order, when a receipt containing the words, "To order; notify Canoe Cotton Mills, Valatie, N. Y," as well as the words, "Account of Tolar, Hart & Co.," had been given at the time of the shipment of the goods. The libel is accordingly dismissed, without considering the other points made in behalf of the claimant, upon the ground that when the steam-boat delivered the cotton to the raill'oad at Hudson the duty attaching to the steam-boat as carrier was discharged.
THE SNAP.
(District Court, D. New Jersey. August 13, 1884.) ADMIRALTY PRACTICE-STIPULATION FOR COSTS-OATH OF SUnETY.
Until satisfactory proof is put in that the officer, in accepting a bond, was de. ceived or did not properly perform his duty, the court will assume that the security is sutlicient, Rnd when the surety has made oath that he is worth a suf. ficient sum over and above all his just debts and liabilities the stipulatioD ill prima facie good.
In Admiralty. Hyland d: Zabriskie, for libelants. Wallis d: Edwards, for claimants. NIXON, J.The proctors for the libelants in the above-stated cause filed with the libel the usual stipulation for costs, offering as surety. one Isaac Pierson, who swore that he was worth the sum of $500 over and above all his just debts and liabilities. This is all that the rule requires, and is, prima facie, a good stipulation. The proctors for the claimants, however, gave notice to the libelants to produce their surety (Pierson) before Mr. Commissioner Romaine in Jersey City, on a day stated, to enable them to make further inquiry as to his property and responsibility. The libelants declined to produce him; and a rule was then taken upon them to show cause before the court why additional security for costs should not be furnished. On the return of the rule no evidence was offered to show, or tending to show, that the stipulation filed was not good, but the court was asked to inaugurate the practice of setting aside a stipulation for coats entered into in the usual form, and verified by the usual affidavit, upon the mere suggestion by the respondents that it might not be sufficient. Until some satisfactory proof is put in that the officer, in accepting