Mr Justice THOMPSON delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case comes before the court upon a writ of error to the circuit court of the district of Columbia. The action is covenant, on a charter party dated the 15th of July 1820, by which the plaintiffs in the court below let and hired to the defendant the brig James Monroe, to proceed from Bath, in the state of Maine, to Havana, thence to Mobile, or elsewhere as the defendant might direct, for the term of twelve...
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