Hughes v. J. S. Hoskins Lumber Co.

LANNING, District Judge.

By the libel filed in this case the libelant seeks to recover certain sums alleged to be due for demurrage and freight under five separate charter parties, relating, respectively, to the five barges, Chesapeake, Dover, Etta Hughes, Hudson, and Falcon. The respondent embodied in its answer exceptions to certain specific allegations in the libel. When the parties first appeared before the commissioner for the examination •of witnesses, the counsel for the respondent entered upon the record an objection to the taking of any testimony before the exceptions should be…