THE NATCHEZ.
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But I must regard even this as more trustworthy than the extremely loose, vague, and widely discrepant estimates of persons who knew nothing of the actual injury to the fruit, and who gave estimates of what injury might happen to fruit exposed for 12 hours to a certain temperature. In the absence of any better testimony, I take, therefore, the average values of Palermo fruit during the week before and after the arrival of the Boskenna Bay, and compute tha damage to the 46 lots by a comparison of those average values, as the sound price, with the prices realized on the sale of the 46 lots in their damaged condition. The damage upon the nine lots will be taken at the difference between the amount at which they sold and the average sales of the similar nine lots in evidence. The parties will probably be able to make up the amount due upon the above basis without further reference.
THE NATCHEZ.'
WALI,ACE
and another .". THE
NATCHEZ.
(Oircuit Oourt, E. D. Loui8iano.. March 8, 188'7.) STOPPAGE IN TRANSITU-DELIVERY.
By a substantial delivery of goods by a common carrier to the consignee thereof, lose any right they may have had to stop the con&igned goods in tramztu. t
Admiralty Appeal. See 27 Fed. Rep. 309. E. H. Farrar and E. B. Krutt8chnitt, for libelants. O. B. Sanswm, for claimants. PARDEE, J. At the time of the attempt of libelants to exercise the in transitu, the transitus had long been ended, so far as right of the Natchez was concerned, by the delivery at Kemp's Landing, one of the places named in the libel as the place of consignment; or, if that was not such a delivery as would relieve the Natchez from liability as a common carrier, then the transitu,s was ended when the Natchez reshipped the goods under direction of J. P. Kennedy, agent of the consignee, for another destination. There is evidence to show that Kemp's Landing and Kemp's Levee were different places, about three miles apart. The libel says the goods were consigned to Kemp's Levee or Landing, and the unsigned dmy receipt, attached to the libel, specifies Kemp's Levee as the mark on the goods. There is no doubt that the goods were delivered by the Natchez at Kemp's Landing for the consignee, and that they remained there several days before they were reshipped on the I
by Joseph P. Hornor; Esq., of the New Orleans bar. the delivery that will defeat the consignor's right of stoppage in tra7l8itu, see Lanj\'Staff v. Stix, (Miss.) 1 South. Rep. 97, and note. S Respecting
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REPORTER.
Natchez. Nor is there any doubt that the goods were reshipped on the Natchez under authority from John P. Kennedy, acting dn behalf of the . consignee of the goods. As to the agency of John P. Kennedy, his own testimony leaves little doubt. In answer to a direct interrogatory, he says: "P. J. Kennedy has one othe,r son, and this son and myself were engaged as agents and employes of said P. J. Kennedy in and about said levee works." And to a cross-interrogatory, he says: "I was engaged in settling up the business of P. J. Kennedy, who had failed," etc. P..J. Kennedy, while denying the authority of his son John P. to deliver property to creditors in payment of debts, admits the !lgency to see about supplies, to supply the people at work, and generally as a boss, representing himself in his absence. Capt. Leathers a.nd Dowling considered and treated him as an agent of his father. If he was agent, and we should consider that the landing afthe goods at Kemp's Landing was no delivery, then the delivery was anticipated by the reshipment under his authority, acting for his father, the consignee, and the transitus was at an end. It is immaterial for this case whether the reshipment, if authorized by the consignee, was for the purpose of returning the goods to the consignors, 01 was for the benefit of the consignee. I think that the evidence warrants the court in finding that John P. Kennedy was authorized and acted as the agent of his father, the consignee; that a substantial delivery was made to him; and tha.,t thereby the libelants lost any right they may have had to stop the consIgned goods in transitu. See Ang. Carr. §§ 345, 347; 1 Smith, Lead. Cas. 858 et seq.j Abb. Shipp. 525. et seq. .Let a decree be entered dismissing the libel, with costs.
THE
CITY OF SALEM. July 21, 1887.)
(District ooort, D. Oregon.
1.
MARITIME LIEN-STATE LAW-MONEY PAID ON ORDER OF OWNER.
A bank with whom the owner of a steam-boat keeps an account, and which pays the checks of the latter drawn in favor of third persons in payment of materials furnished said boat, has no lien thereon, under the lien law of Oregon, for any balance due it on said·account. Under the law of Oregon, a lien on a vessel is lost unless due proceedings are taken for its enforcement within a year from the time the right of action accrues on the debt; and such limitation will be recognized and enforced whenever such lien is asserted or set up in a court of admiralty.
2. SAME-LIMITATION.
(Syllabus by the Oourt.)
In Admiralty. William. B.Gilbert and James F. Watson, for libelants. John M. Bower, for intervenor. I
DEADY, J. This suit is brought by the libelant, the Salem SteamBoat Company, to procure a partition of the steam-boat City of Salem