Watts v. Camors

This cause, tried and submitted at the last term, grows out of a charter-party entered into between the parties at the city of New Orleans on the eleventh day of August, 1879. The charter-party is in nearly the usual form, and only three quotations from it are necessary to present the case as it stands before the court:

(1.) “ This charter-party, etc., between A. B. French & Co., agents for the owners of steam-ship Highbury, of the burden of 1,100 tons, or thereabouts, register measurements, due here between the tenth and twentieth of September, of the first part,” etc. (2.) “ The said party…