Legal Opinion
Companhia De Navegacao Lloyd Brasileiro v. C. G. Blake Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 3, 1929No. 327PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtL. Hand, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This contract was hot to deliver the amount of coal which six vessels of average capacity could lift. It was not a tonnage contract at all, but an undertaking to fill six steamers with coal and send them to Rio. The seller was not obliged, nor indeed was he permitted, to send more or less than six steamers; his offer to substitute schooners, for example, was not in performance, and indeed was not so suggested; it was a proposed modification. • Hence the capacity of the customary steamer was not an issue, unless we are to read the engagement as imposing on…
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