Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat itself. [Please select]
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It had been litigated, during a series of years, in every form, in the state courts of New-York, where the monopoly had triumphed over all opposition. [Please select]
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