Page L'Hote Co. v. Munson S. S. Line

In March, 1923, the Otis Manufacturing Company of New Orleans and the Munson Steamship Line of the city of New York entered into a written contract of affreightment, otherwise called a charter party, whereby the steamship line agreed to transport from certain ports on the Central American Coast, and from the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua to the Otis Manufacturing plant at New Orleans approximately 45,000 tons of mahogany, and/or cedar logs.

It was stipulated that approximately 10,-000 tons were to be shipped from Frontera or Santana, 10,000 tons from the Belize range, and 25,000 tons from the…