The Innocenta

CHOATE, District Judge.

This is a libel brought by the shipper of cargo against the vessel for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, which is described in the libel as “demurrage of lighters.” The cargo was heavjr oak and black walnut timber. The libel alleges that on the 1st day of March, 1S77, the agents of the vessel contracted and engaged with the libellant that the vessel should take and receive on board at New York to be carried to London, about 200 tons measurement of timber; that, by the terms of the contract, the timber was to be delivered and loaded on board of the vessel from…