Constantine & Pickering S. S. Co. v. West India S. S. Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Constantine & Pickering Steamship Company, owner of the steamship Kingswood, against the West India Steamship Company, for breach of charter party. The S. W. Bonsall Timber Properties, Limited, was impleaded by respondent. On final hearing. Decree for libelant for half damages.
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In Admiralty. Suit by the Constantine & Pickering Steamship Company, owner of the steamship Kingswood, against the West India Steamship Company, for breach of charter party. The S. W. Bonsall Timber Properties, Limited, was impleaded by respondent. On final hearing. Decree for libelant for half damages. The libel (for breach of charter party of steamship Kingswood) was brought by owners to recover from charterers (a) compensation at a rate higher than the charter rate for detention and use of the vessel after expiration of time charter, and during a -period when the market for vessels of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The Kingswood came to the mooring place complained of on October 31, 1911. During the preceding summer the Bonsalls had at their own expense established two buoys in front of their place of business at Bergen Point and on Newark Bay, a short distance below the railway bridge of the New Jersey Central Load. It is shown that the buoys were located under the direction of the supervisor of anchorages, and on June 23, 1911, mariners were officially notified that two “first-class can white” mooring buoys had been established “in about 19 feet of water,” and were…
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