California & Eastern S. S. Co. v. 138,000 Feet of Lumber

COLEMAN, District Judge.

This is a libel in rem by the California & Eastern Steamship Company against a cargo of lumber carried from Portland, Or., to Baltimore, aboard one of its vessels, the West Keats, whereby libelant seeks to recover certain demurrage charges paid to the railroad company for the use of its cars into which the lumber was discharged at the pier upon the vessel’s arrival.

The material facts are not in dispute. The lumber was consigned to the order of the shipper, the Chapman Lumber Company, notify tho Burgan Lumber Company, at Baltimore. This latter company sold the cargo to…