Leonard v. William G. Barker Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Admiralty. Suit by Everett W. Leonard, master of the schooner Abenaki, against the William G. Barker Company.
1Opinion of the Court
HALE, District Judge.
This is a libel for demurrage, arising from the alleged detention of the schooner Abenaki at East Cambridge in the port of Boston, while discharging a cargo of lumber. The suit is brought by the master, in behalf of the owners of the vessel. On July 2, 1912, the schooner left South Gardiner, Me., for Boston, under an oral charter to Lawrence Bros., with a cargo of 194,063 feet of spruce lumber consigned to the respondent at Boston. Neither the charter party nor the bill of lading contained any reference to demurrage or rate of dispatch. The schooner arrived in Boston on…
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- Gilbert Transp. Co. v. BordenCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1909
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