Britain S. S. Co. v. Munson S. S. Line

HAZEL, District Judge.

On February 28, 1925, libelant, owner of the steamship Putney, entered into an. arrangement by which the steamship, under a time charter, was delivered at a port in Cuba to respondent for use between safe ports in the' United States and other safe .ports in Cuba, West Indies, Central America, Carribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Mexico, or South America, not south of Demarara, and excluding ore trading, etc. For such use and hire the charterer was required to pay $1.30, our currency, per ton of the steamship’s total dead weight capacity, payment semimonthly, in advance.…