Clydesdale Shipowners' Co. v. William W. Brauer S. S. Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

A libel was filed in this action to recover the damages, incident to a failure on the Brauer Steamship Company’s part to perform a charter party of the libellant’s steamship Aboukir, made between the libellant and the steamship company, with William W. Brauer as surety, on the 12th day of March, 1901, for a period of thirty-six months, at the rate of ¿1300 per month from the date of her delivery, which took place at New York on the 13th day of May, 1901. The steamship then went into the Brauer Company’s service and was sub-chartered by it to W. R. Grace & Co. for a round…