Burn Line, Ltd. v. United States & Australasia S. S. Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

This is an action brought by. the Burn Line, Limited, owner of the steamship Oakburn, to recover from the United States and Australasia Steamship Company, a second install*424ment of hire alleged to be due under a charter of affreightment, dated January 24, 1906, amounting to $14,964.48.

The libel alleges as follows:

“Tim'd. On or about January 24, 1906, at New York, a charter party in writing was entered into between the libellant and the respondent by which the steamship Oakburn was chartered to the respondent to carry a cargo from New York to several named ports in…