Randolph v. Wiley

ADAMS, District Judge.

This is an action brought by the libellant to recover a balance of freight of $20.27 and six days’ demurrage at $49.20 per day, on a cargo of lumber transported by the schooner “T. Morris Perot” from Norfolk, Virginia, to New York in August, 1901. It is not disputed that the freight is due.

The controversy arises out of the terms of the charter party, made between the libellant, as master of the vessel, and the respondents, as charterers, which, inter alia, provides:

“The said party of the second part doth engage to provide and furnish to the said vessel a full and…