Gentilli v. The Sidonian’s Empirical Analysis
34 F. 805 · 1888
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1968
2 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McCoy v. Nelson
Most-quoted passages
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““It appears from the evidence that, prior to the shipment of these lemons, a quarantine had been established at the port of Palermo, whereby a vessel coming from Genoa was compelled, before entering the port of Palermo, to go to the island of Gaeta, and there remain for the period of 10 days. There is evidence to show that, prior to the shipment of the lemons, the agent of the shipowner gave the shipper to understand that the ship would not call at Palermo on this voyage. But it also appears that, upon the' shipment of the lemons, the bill of lading upon which this action is based was issued by the ship, and received by the shipper without objection; the fact of the establishment of the quarantine at Palermo being then known to all parties. Thereafter the ship called at Palermo, that being one of the ports ordinarily-touched at by the vessels of this line on their voyage to New York, and in consequence was detained by the quarantine 10 days. Upon these facts the libelant asks at the hands of this court a construction of the bill of lading, so as to exclude the port of Palermo from the liberty to call mentioned in the bill of lading, upon the ground that, after the establishment of the quarantine, the port of Palermo could not be entered under ordinary circumstances, and so was not within the contemplation of the parties to the contract. But I am unable to see how such a construction can be given to the bill of lading. The words of the liberty to call are plain, and clearly in”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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