Smith v. Lee
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a libel in personam by Lewis S. Lee, master of the schooner Ada Bailey, against G-eorge M. Smith to recover demur-rage. The district court rendered a decree for libelant, and respondent appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
WEBB, District Judge.
This is a libel for demurrage for-days of the schooner Ada Bailey, under the following bill of lading:
Shipped by the Philadelphia & Beading Coal and Iron Company, in good order, on board the schooner called “Ada Bailey,” of -, for account of Percy Heilner & Son, whereof the undersigned is master for the present voyage, and now lying at the port of Philadelphia, and bound for Cambridgeport, Mass., eight hundred & twenty-eight tons, of 2240 lbs., Schuylkill coal (as per margin), which I promise to deliver at the aforesaid port of Cambridgeport in like good order (the…
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