W. R. Grace & Co. v. Luckenbach S. S. Co.
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Libel by W. R. Grace & Co. against the Lucken-bach Steamship Company, Incorporated, and the Luckenbach Company, Incorporated. On exceptions to the commissioner’s report.
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In Admiralty. Libel by W. R. Grace & Co. against the Lucken-bach Steamship Company, Incorporated, and the Luckenbach Company, Incorporated. On exceptions to the commissioner’s report. This case was heretofore heard and decided by this court on the 12th day of March, 1918, and will be found reported in 248 Fed. 953, to which reference is made, without restating the facts, and the cause is now before the court upon the exceptions of the libelant and respondents to the report of Commissioner D. Lawrence Groner, to whom the same was referred by order of the 25th of April, 1918, filed herein on…
1Opinion of the CourtWad Dux, District Judge
(after stating.the facts as above). The gist of the libelant’s exceptions is that the commissioner erred in reporting the liability in its favor for the breach of the contract sued on, in the sum of $1,311,059.16, with interest from the 1st of Novena-*58ber, 1917; whereas, the damages should have been assessed at $1,371,-325.40, with interest from July 31, 1917.
Briefly, the exceptant says: (1) That the commissioner erred in giving credit to the libelant for only $10,000 to cover operating commissions, gratuities, etc., in carrying out and performing the contract breached, when he should have…
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