Burrill v. Crossman

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought in 1894, by the owners of the bark Kate Burrill, against the charterers thereof, to recover 53 days’ allowance of demurrage for detention of the bark in the port of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in September, October, and November, 1893. The bark was chartered in March, 1893, to carry a load of lumber to Rio. On the voyage out she lost a portion of the cargo by perils of the sea, and delivered the remainder during the said months. The answer to the libel, after some general denials, set-up affirmatively, in the fourth article, that, under a cesser of…