Hellenic Transport S. S. Co. v. Archibald McNeil & Sons Co.
District Court, D. Maryland
In Admiralty. libel by the Hellenic Transport Steamship Company against the Archibald McNeil & Sons Company, Incorporated, to recover damages resulting from the charterer’s failure to furnish a cargo of coal for the ship. Decree rendered for libelant.
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In Admiralty. libel by the Hellenic Transport Steamship Company against the Archibald McNeil & Sons Company, Incorporated, to recover damages resulting from the charterer’s failure to furnish a cargo of coal for the ship. Decree rendered for libelant. The eharter of the Tolcos was on the Americanized Welsh form, 1914, containing these provisions: “8. Steamer to load as customary and in turn with other steamers, but in no case at less than fifteen hundred (1,500) tons per running day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted. Time for loading to count from seventy-two (72) hours after master has…
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
In this case the steamship Iolcos, belonging to the Hellenic Transport Steamship Company, a Greek corporation, was on June 9, 1920, chartered to the Archibald McNeil & Sons Company, Incorporated, to carry coal to Europe. When the ship reported at Baltimore, the charterer refused her, and she was after some delay rechartered at a much lower rate. Her owner seeks to recover the resulting loss.
The original charter was on what is known as the Americanized Welsh form, 1914, to which the parties made various amendments. The charterer defends under its third and its seventh…
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- New Jersey Lighterage Co. v. E. A. PackerU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1892
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