Loreto Compania Naviera, S.A., as Owner of the Ss Lamyrefs v. Bradley and Baker and Centraal Stikstof Verkoopkantoor, N.V.

COLEMAN, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal we must settle the liability of a cargo owner in consequence of two charter contracts, conflicting in various material stipulations, the second of which the cargo owner did not sign, for the use of a vessel to transport a cargo of fertili2;er from Rotterdam to American Gulf ports. Under the facts which are to be discussed, the District Judge declined to hold either the owner, or the cargo, to any greater liability than that assumed in the first charter. We affirm.

There is little dispute, if any, about the material facts. The District Court made careful,…