Hastorf v. F. R. Long-W. G. Broadhurst Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern 'District of New York. Suit in admiralty by Albert H. Hastorf, owner of the dumper scow. Montreal, against the F. R. Dong-W. G. Broadhurst Company and Henry E. Fox, impleaded. Decree for respondents, and libelant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
[1] April 16, 1912, Hastorf, the libelant, owner of the dumper scow Montreal, chartered her, including a man to take care of her, to the Long-Broadhurst Company, for an indefinite time at $20 a day. The contract was entirely oral. Such employment of boats without motive power of their own, which go, including a man generally called the master, into the absolute control of the charterer, have in this harbor, at least since the decision of the late Judge Addison Brown in 1892 in The Daniel Burns (D. C.) 52 Fed. 159, been regarded as demises; the charterer becoming the owner…
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