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GRANT ET AL v. POILLON ET AL

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61 U.S. 162 (1858)

20 How. 162

15 L.Ed. 871

WILLIAM B. GRANT, WILLIAM BRADSTREET, WILLIAM L. FLITNER, PETER GRANT, IN HIS OWN RIGHT AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THOMAS GRANT, DECEASED, ELIZABETH F. GRANT, ADMINISTRATRIX, WILLIAM S. GRANT AND GEORGE BACON, ADMINISTRATORS OF THE ESTATE OF SAMUEL C. GRANT, DECEASED, OWNERS OF THE AMERICAN SHIP CONSTELLATION, LIBELLANTS AND APPELLANTS, v. CORNELIUS POILLON, RICHARD POILLON, JAMES L. VARICK, IMPLEADED WITH H. JOHNSON, HICKS, BAILEY, WILLIAM Y. CLARK, DEAN W.W. HINCHEN, C.H. CLARK, AND D.D. MILLER, RESPONDENTS AND APPELLEES.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 15, 1858.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Goodrich for the appellants, and submitted on a printed argument by Mr. Donohue.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal in admiralty from the Circuit Court for the southern district of New York.

The libellants, Grant and others, are the sole owners of the ship Constellation, and they bring an action of affreightment, civil and maritime, against the respondents, and allege that William L. Flitner was master of the ship; that the respondents were copartners, under...

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