A/S D/S Mathilda v. Bethlehem Steel Co.

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This suit is brought to recover the stun, of $852.70, deducted by the charterer’s agent from gross freight payable to the libelant under a charter party between the libelant, as owner of the steamship August, and Manganexport, G. m. b. H., as charterer. The deduction was made under clause 2 of the charter party as a charge for the use of shore cranes employed in unloading a cargo of ore at Baltimore, Md. The charter party is dated December 11, 1931, and was for the carriage of a cargo of ore from Nieolaieff, in Soviet Russia, to Baltimore, Md.

Freight was to be paid at…