The Hettie Ellis

Pabdee, .J.

“The obligation of the owners is to appoint a competent master, having reasonable skill and judgment and courage, and they are liable if, through his failure to possess or exert these qualities in any emergency, the interest of shippers is prejudiced. But they do not contract for his infallibility, nor that he shall do, in -an emergency, precisely what, after the event, others may think would have been best.” Lawrence v. Minturn, 17 How. 100.

In the same case it is said: “But if a jettison of a cargo becomes necessary in consequence of any fault or breach of contract by the master…