Charter Shipping Co. v. Bowring, Jones & Tidy, Ltd.

Respondent, a British corporation, filed in the District Court for Southern New York a libel in personam-against petitioner, also a British corporation, to recover a general average deposit made in_ London. The libel alleged that the petitioner received on its vessel, the “ Charterhague,” at various Gulf and Atlantic ports in the United States, shipments of rosin and turpentine for transportation to London, bills of lading for which were endorsed to the respondent. As grounds for recovery it was set up that the general average act was due to unseaworthiness of the vessel at the beginning of…