Cureton Lumber Co. v. Hammond Lumber Co.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

The Hammond Lumber, Company filed a Kb el in rem against l, 650,000 feet of lumber, the cargo of the steamship Samoa, to recover demurrage, estimated at $10,800, for the detention of that vessel, owned by it. The Cureton Lumber Company claimed the lumber as owners. The parties wiU hereafter be referred to, respectively, as Kbelant and claimant. Judgment was rendered in favor of Kbelant in the sum of $7,550 without interest. From this judgment claimant has appealed. By cross-appeal Kbelant seeks to have interest added to the judgment. Libelant chartered the steamship…