Legal Opinion

Trafikatiedolaget Grangesberg Oxelosand v. Ainesworth Coal & Iron Co.

District Court, D. Maryland

Decided May 31, 1922No. 707PublishedCited by 3 opinions

In Admiralty. Libel by the Trafikatiedolaget Grangesberg Oxelosand, a corporation under tlie laws of the kingdom of Sweden, against the Ainesworth Coal & Iron Company.

1Opinion of the Court

ROSE, District Judge.

[1] In an opinion heretofore handed down (273 Fed. 215) the charterer was held liable for the damage suffered by the- owner in consequence of the former’s failure to furnish a cargo as required by the charter. In ascertaining the amount, the circumstances seem to make it expedient to restate some commonplace principles. Had it been-manifestly impossible to have secured other employment for the ship, it would doubtless have been the owner’s duty to start her back empty to her home port so soon, after it had received the charterer’s definite refusal to load her, as…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Trafikatiedolaget Grangesberg Oxelosand v. Ainesworth Coal & Iron Co.District Court, D. Maryland · 1921

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Phelan v. Middle States Oil Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1955
  2. Pallma v. FoxCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1950
  3. Ainesworth Coal & Iron Co. v. Trafikaktiedolaget Grangesberg OxelosundCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1923

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