District Court, D. Rhode Island February 23, 1882 (Snow & Burgess v. One Hundred & Eighty & Three-Fourths Tons of Scrap Iron)

Colt, D. J.

This is a suit on a bottomry bond brought against a portion of the cargo of the brig Mechanic, of Portland, Maine, and the proceeds of said portion, in whosesoever hands the same may be found. It is admitted that the iron claimed was part of the cargo at the time the bond was made, and that it was subsequently *518delivered to the Rhode Island Horseshoe Company, of Providenee.