Taylor v. Fall River Ironworks

HOLT, District Judge.

These are two suits, brought by the firm of' Charles M. Taylor’s Sons against the Fall River Ironworks, to recover demurrage for delay in unloading two cargoes of coal shipped from Cardiff to New York on the steamers North Point and Montauk Point. • In the early part of October, 1902, the Fall River Ironworks purchased by cable from Mann, George & Co., of London, 11,000 tons of Welsh coal. The contract provided that the coal should be delivered free alongside at New York. The Fall River Ironworks, therefore, under its contract with Mann, George & Co., was under no…