Pacific Coast Steamship Co. v. Moore
District Court, N.D. California
On - rehearing. This was a libel by the Pacific Coast Steamship Company against E. W. Ferguson, Elida F. Hobson, and John Cook, partners, doing business under the firm name of Moore, Ferguson & Co., to recover a balance of freight alleged to be due.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, District -Judge.
A libel in personam was filed in this case to recover a balance of freight alleged to be due for the transportation of 2,448 sacks of barley, weighing 271,510 pounds, on one of libelant’s steamers, from Moss Landing to San Diego, both ports being within the state of California. The libel alleges that the rate of freight agreed upon was $4.35 per ton of 2,000 pounds, of which sum $2.50 per ton was to be paid by the Howard Commercial Company of San Diego, the consignee of the barley. The balance of $1.85, including a charge of 25 cents per ton for storage in libelant’s…
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