SIMONTON v. WINTER AND BOWMAN


30 U.S. 141 (____)

5 Pet. 141

JOHN W. SIMONTON, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR vs. SAMUEL WINTER AND SAMUEL G. BOWMAN, SURVIVORS OF JOSHUA BOWMAN, DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Coxe for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr Jones for the defendants.

Mr Jones, for the defendants in error.


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...

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