Wilkens v. Trafikaktiebolaget Grangesberg Okelosund

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a libel in personam by the owner of the Swedish steamship Laponia, to recover the sum total of certain deductions made by the shippers of a cargo of cotton in an accounting under a contract of affreightment. The defense is that the deductions were authorized by the contract, or charter party, as it is designated by the parties.

The provisions of that instrument, material to the controversy, are:

“(1) That the said steamer [Laponia] * * * shall proceed * * * to Houston and/or Galveston (including Texas City and Port Bolivar), * * * and there * * * shall load from the…