Michigan S. S. Co. v. Thornton

McCORMICK, Circuit Judge.

On October 19, 1901, the appellant, the Michigan Steamship Company,, entered into a contract with the Lone Star & Crescent Oil Company, whereby the steamship company agreed to transport oil cargoes for the oil company from Sabine Pass, Tex., or other equivalent Gulf port, to New York, or other equivalent Atlantic port, of which Marcus Hook, Pa., is agreed to have been an equivalent, for five years at the rate of 37 cents per barrel of 42 gallons each. On December 15, 1902, the steamship company, by its steamship Roma, carried a cargo of bulk oil from Sabine Pass to…