Thompson v. Geo. W. Bush & Sons Co.
District Court, D. Maryland
In Admiralty. Libel by Abraham P. Thompson, master of the schooner William Neely, against the George W. Bush & Sons Oompany, for breach of a charter party.
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS, District Judge.
The controversy in this suit arises from a dispute in regard to the employment of a stevedore to load a cargo of lumber in the port of Savannah. By a charter party made in the city of New York 26th of March, 1892, the George W. Bush & Sons Company, of Wilmington, Deb, chartered the schooner William Neely for a voyage from Savannah to New York, and engaged to furnish to the vessel at Savannah a full and complete cargo of re-sawed yellow pine lumber, under and on deck, to be carried to New York at a certain rate of freight per 1,000 feet for all delivered; the cargo to be…
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- Portland Shipping Co. v. The Alex GibsonDistrict Court, D. Washington · 1890
- Menendez v. The KeystoneDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1886
- Culliford v. GomilaSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
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