Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Co. v. Swift
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This was an action brought in this court, in Cumberland county, for the recovery of $24,690.08, damages for breach of a contract claimed by the plaintiff to have been made with the defendants, by which it chartered to the defendants certain space, at a price designated, on the three steamers, Vancouver,' Sarnia and Oregon, owned by the plaintiff' company, which space was to be fitted with refrigerators and used by the defendants for the shipping of dressed meat.
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On report. This was an action brought in this court, in Cumberland county, for the recovery of $24,690.08, damages for breach of a contract claimed by the plaintiff to have been made with the defendants, by which it chartered to the defendants certain space, at a price designated, on the three steamers, Vancouver,' Sarnia and Oregon, owned by the plaintiff' company, which space was to be fitted with refrigerators and used by the defendants for the shipping of dressed meat. The principal part of the evidence consists of letters and telegrams between David Torrance & Co., steamboat agents of…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
A full exposition of our judgment in this case, requires an extended statement of the evidence and the authorities, notwithstanding constant effort at abridgment.
The plaintiff steamship company owned and operated a line of ocean steamships plying between Liverpool and Montreal in the summer, and between Liverpool and Portland in the winter. The American agents of the company were David Torrance & Co. with offices in Montreal and in Portland. Three of the steamships were named respectively, Sarnia, Oregon and Vancouver.
The defendants, Swift & Co., located at Boston, were large shippers of…
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