Shoe v. Craig
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Suit by Bonaparte Shoe, managing owner of the ' Matilda D. Borda, against George F. Craig and another. Decree for libelant.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
This is a suit to enforce contribution in general average. The following facts are either conceded or established by the evidence:
The wooden schooner Matilda D. Borda — 165 feet long, 39 feet beam, 1,200 tons gross, drawing about 19 feet when loaded — sailed from Fernandina, Fla., on February 5, 1906, bound for Philadelphia. Her only cargo was 541,900 feet of lumber, consigned to the respond-' ents, on which the freight was $5.25 per 1,000 feet, or $2,844.93. The lumber has been delivered, and the freight has been paid, but $1,045.15 is also claimed from the…
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