Crossley v. Fabbri
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. This libel was filed to recover demurrage for the detention of the bark Spartan at various ports in the region of Arica and Callao, Peru, in the summer of 1880, arising out of the blockade of the Peruvian ports by the Chilian fleets during the late war.
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In Admiralty. This libel was filed to recover demurrage for the detention of the bark Spartan at various ports in the region of Arica and Callao, Peru, in the summer of 1880, arising out of the blockade of the Peruvian ports by the Chilian fleets during the late war. On the third of December, 1879, the respondents chartered the bark Spartan, under a charter-party executed by the libelant, as master, for a voyage outward “from New York to Arica, with the privilege of a second port in Peru, not north of Callao, on the terms following: *' * * The respondents shall be allowed twenty running lay…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The long detention of the Spartan arose out of the successive blockade by the Chilian government of the various Peruvian ports at which the discharge of cargo was sought to he made. Upon the argument, little stress was laid upon tlie delay at Arica, when the Spartan came hack there after the removal of the blockade. The chief complaint is of alleged long continued and inexcusable delays at Ancon and at Chancay. If the “dispatch customary” at Arica and Callao is applicable to the discharge at the extemporized ports of Ancon and Chancay, to which the Spartan went in consequence of the blockade…
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