Hansen v. Nine Hundred & Ninety-Eight Tons of Coal

HamilxoN, Judge,

delivered tbe following opinion:

The libel in rem filed January 15, 1913, sets up that the ■owners of the Tillie Baker on November 14, 1912, chartered to the Consolidation Coal Company the Tillie Baker for a voy.age from Philadelphia to San Juan. The charter party annexed to the libel calls for freight at the rate of $2.40 per ton •of 2,240 pounds of coal, which was to constitute the cargo. The charterers were to pay the vessel’s Porto Bican port charges, freight was payable on proper delivery of cargo, and vessel to be free of all wharfage and lighterage charges. The vessel *396was…