Electro-Dynamic Co. v. The Electron
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty, Libel for balance of price of repairs and supplies. Cross libel to recover damages for breach, of the contract under which the repairs were made. A stay of proceedings under the original libel until security was given for the damages claimed under the cross libel was heretofore allowed. 48 Fed. Eep. 689.
1Opinion of the Court
BEOWN, District Judge.
The above libel was filed to recover payment of the balance of the contract price for supplying to the yacht Electron certain electrical storage batteries, and other work and material, in the spring of 1891. The answer alleges that the batteries were* designed to increase the élecMeal motor power of the yacht, and to enable her to attain a certain increased speed, and that the libelant represented that this could be obtained by increasing the number of cells and rewinding the motor; and that by such changes she would make from 1,400 to 2,000 revolutions of her wheel per…
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