Barrett Co. v. Wathen Co.

PAUL, District Judge.

This case involves a libel-brought by the Barrett Company, a New Jersey corporation, against the barge Smyrna and its owner, the Wathen Company, a Maryland corporation with its home office in Baltimore.

The Barrett Company is engaged in the business of handling and selling sulphate of ammonia, and, from the facts, in part stipulated and in part proven, the following appears:

Oh September 6, 1939, the Barrett Company and the Wathen Company entered in a charter party for the transportation from New York to Baltimore and the .delivery at the latter point of a cargo of 759 tons…