Legal Opinion
Turner v. Cargo of Resawn Pitch Pine Timber & Lumber
District Court, N.D. Florida
Decided June 14, 1918PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Libel in rem by Horace Turner and others, owners of the schooner Addison E. Bullard, against a Cargo of Resawn Pitch Pine Timber and Lumber, and in personam against Allen & Freiderichs.
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPPARD, District Judge.
This is a case.of libel, brought by the owners of the schooner Addison E. Bullard, in rem against the cargo, and in personam against Allen & Freiderichs, charterers of the vessel. The Bullard was chartered to take a cargo from Pensacola, Fla., to Genoa, Italy. The merits of the controversy turn on the construction of that clause of the charter party which reads substantially:
“ * « * Charterers engage to provide and furnish the vessel a full and complete cargo of lawful merchandise, understood no explosives to be shipped. Vessel to furnish the use of her steam winches…
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