Dene S. S. Co. v. Munson

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libel was filed by the owner of the British steamship “Olivedean,” of 2,100 tons gross register, to recover for damages to the steamer resulting from the carriage of asphalt in bulk from Trinidad to Aew York in the spring and summer of 1898.

*984The steamer was chartered to.the defendant Munson for the term of six months, at the rate of £725 per month, to ioe employed “in such lawful trades” between ports of the United States and the West Indies “ Caribbean Sea “ various other ports named, “as charterers or their agents shall direct.” The owners were “to provide and…