The Energia
United States District Court
In Admiralty. Suit in rem against the steamship Energía, to recover damages for breach ■of an executory contract, entered into at San Francisco, by which the steamship was chartered to libelant by her owners to carry a cargo of lumber from Puget Sound to Australia. Heard on exceptions, alleging that the facts set forth in the libel are insufficient to entitle the libelant to a lien upon the steamship upon which to maintain a suit in rem. Exceptions overruled.
1Opinion of the Court
HANFORD, District Judge.
The libel sets forth that a charter party was executed at San Francisco by the owners of the steamship Energía in favor of the libelant, which is a California corporation, whereby said steamship was chartered to take a cargo of lumber from one or more ports on Puget Sound, to be designated by the libelant, and to be delivered at a port of Australia, to be designated; that the steamship came to Puget Sound pursuant to the charter party; that the charterer was able, ready, and willing to furnish a cargo as provided in the contract, but the owners and master of the…
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