Randall v. Sprague
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. ■ This was a libel in admiralty by William M. Randall against Charles H. Sprague and others to recover demurrage. The district court dismissed the libel (67 Fed. 604), and the libelant has appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a libel for demurrage, or for unreasonable delay in loading the schooner Louise H. Randall with coal at Baltimore in January and February, 1893. . One position of the vessel owner is that it was agreed that her loading should be completed on January 18th, but Ave are of opinion that this claim is not sustained, and that there was no obligation except to load in a reasonable time after her return was secured.- There were no agreed demurrage days for loading,- though there were for discharging; so the case- is one for a breach of the implied contract to load wdth…
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