George E. Warren Corporation v. Britain SS Co.

WILSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of Massachusetts in admiralty.

The libellant-appellee is a British corporation and is the sole owner of the British steamship Dartford. The respondent-appellant is a Massachusetts corporation, having its usual place of business in Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

By a charter party dated April 15, 1935, the libellant-appellee chartered the steamship Dartford to the Amtorg Trading Corporation to carry a cargo of 6,000 tons, more or less, of coal from Mariupol, Nicolaieff or Theodosia in Russia at charterer’s…