Dampskibsactiesselskabet Urania v. Barber & Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought to recover $616.16, balance of hire of the libellant’s steamship Polarstjernen, claimed to be due under the charter party dated March 28, 1905, and alleged to have been wrongfully deducted by the respondent. The amounts deducted were the wages paidl by the respondent for shore winchmen between April 11, 1905, and March 10, 1906, at New York and Buenos Ayres. The respondent’s claim is that the amount of the deductions was properly paid and it was entitled to deduct them from the hire. The controversy turns upon the provisions of the charter and…