Legal Opinion
Donaldson v. Severn River Glass Sand Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided June 12, 1905No. 3PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit to recover freight and demurrage under a charter.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLAND, District Judge.
The libelants in this case claim-the sum of $630, being 90 cents per ton on 700 tons of sand, and demurrage for 4^4 days at $20 per day, on the charter party executed by the parties to this suit on September 8, 1903.
The charter party provides that the barge B. T. Donaldson, of Philadelphia, then lying at the harbor of Baltimore, “agrees in the freighting and chartering of the whole of the said barge * * * unto the Severn River Glass Sand Company for a voyage from the-Severn river sand banks to Philadelphia,” and the said company agrees to furnish “a cargo of not less…
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- Boulton v. MooreUnited States Circuit Court · 1883
- Planters' Fertilizer Mfg. Co. v. ElderCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1900
- Christie v. Davis Coal & Coke Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1899
- Gibson v. BrownDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1890
- Lichtenfels v. The Enos B. PhillipsDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1892
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- Pacific Mail S. S. Co. v. Western Pac. R.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1918
- Olsen v. American Transatlantic S. S. Co.District Court, E.D. New York · 1921
- Severn River Glass Sand Co. v. DonaldsonDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1905