Seagar v. New York & C. Mail Steamship Co.

.BROW X, District Judge.

The contract in the charter party to discharge with “customary dispatch'’ is fulilllwl if the vessel is afforded the customary facilities for speedy discharge. Steamship Co. v. Dempsey, [1892] 1 Q. B. 854. To the present case there were but two consignees of the hemp cargo, though the three bills of lading specified muneroun lots of different marlin and numbers. All the hump, however, was directed by orders from the receivers to the name storehouse. The evidence shows that the customary mode of handling cargoes of hemp la that the bales are not removed until all have…