The North Star
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Admiralty. On exceptions to commissioner’s report. This was a suit for a collision between the propeller C. J. Sheffield and the steam-ship North Star, which was tried in February, 1890, before the district judge and nautical assessors, and resulted in a decree adjudging both vessels to be in fault, apportioning the damages, and referring the case to a commissioner to compute and report the same.
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In Admiralty. On exceptions to commissioner’s report. This was a suit for a collision between the propeller C. J. Sheffield and the steam-ship North Star, which was tried in February, 1890, before the district judge and nautical assessors, and resulted in a decree adjudging both vessels to be in fault, apportioning the damages, and referring the case to a commissioner to compute and report the same. Upon filing such report, exception was taken by the libelants to the refusal of the commissioner to allow the sum of $14,000 for an alleged loss of profits upon a charter to carry 25,000 tons of…
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, J.,
(after stating the facts as above.) The main exception here relates to the disallowance by the commissioner of the loss of profits upon the charter of the Sheffield to carry 25,000 tons of iron ore. The facts connected with this claim are briefly as follows: On the 28th of March, the Northwestern Transportation Company, by H. II. Brown, vice-president, agreed with tho Interocean Transportation Company to carry for it 60,000 tons of ore from Two Harbors to Chicago, at $1.20 per gross ton. On the 1st of April, E. M. Peck, president of the Northwestern Transportation Company, wrote to…
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