British Maritime Trust, Ltd. v. Munson S. S. Line

HOUGH, District Judge.

While loading cargo in this harbor on April 25, 1908, the mast of the steamship Austriana, then under charter to ..the Munson. .S.teamsbin Line, buckled and broke. The owners of the vessel have been obliged to pay for the cost of repairs, •and the charterers have incurred expense through delay and interfer*534ence with the loading and discharge of the cargo. Each party alleges that the breaking of the mast was the -fault of the other, and both have filed libels.

The vessel had been chartered on April 6th, and before that date no information had been given the owners as to the…