Eastern Transportation Co. v. United States

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment recovered by the petitioner Eastern Transportation Company against the United States in an action brought under the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C.A. § 41(20), to recover freight payable by the terms of a charter party entered into between the petitioner and the respondent, wherein it was provided that the petitioner’s barge J. P. Huppman should transport from New York to Baltimore 700 ions of phosphate rock at the rate of $3 per ton, and that: “freight is payable in full without any deduction on delivery of cargo in barge alongside dock…