Nichols v. Tremlett

SPRAGUE, District Judge.

This is a libel for demurrage. On the 8th day of August, 1S54, the respondent, a merchant of Boston, and the libellant, master of the brig Melazzo, executed a charter-party, by which that vessel was to go to Pictou, and there take a cargo of coal and convey it to New York. The respondent was to be allowed, at Pictou, lay days, as “customary in loading,” and “the cargo was to be received as customary,” and in case the vessel was longer detained, the respondent agreed to pay to the libellant demurrage, at the rate of thirty Spanish milled dollars, day by day, for every…