Ye Seng Co. v. Corbitt & Macleay

Deady, D. J.

The libellants, Ye Seng Company, composed of sundry Chinese merchants of this city, bring this suit to recover $5,957.80 from the defendants, as damages, with interest, for the non-performance by them of a charter-party executed in this city on August 20, 1879, for the American bark Garibaldi. By the agreement “Messrs. Corbitt & Macleay, agent for owners of the American hark Garibaldi, of Portland, Oregon,” of 670 tons burden, chartered *424her “between-decks” to the libellants for a voyage from Hong Kong, China, to Portland, to carry “passengers and (or) freight” in number as…