F. S. Royster Guano Co. v. United States

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

In every one of these six eases, the United States, as the owner of the respective steamships mentioned in their titles, recovered a decree for demurrage against the appellant, the E. S. Royster Guano Company, a Virginia corporation, and which, in 1920, had chartered the ships to carry phosphate rock from Port Tampa, Ela., to Baltimore, Md.

One of the charter parties, that of the steamship Winooski, as to lay days and demurrage, was identical with that passed upon by us in The Lake Yelverton, 300 F. 47, and to which the parties were the same as those now before the court.…