Petrie v. Heller

The above libel was filed to recover the freight for transporting 114 tons of tankage in November, 1887, from New Haven to the *311schooner J. IT. Parker, lying at Perth Amboy. The respondents claimed a deduction of $75, which they had been obliged to pay the Parker for the detention of that vessel while waiting for the tankage; and they alleged this to be a legal offset on account of the failure of the libelant to transport the tankage expeditiously, and to deliver the same to the schooner on the 9th of November, as they allege was agreed. The balance of freight was tendered and deposited in…