Solberg v. Cargo of Steel Rails

LOWELL, District Judge.

This ease was tried on a statement of agreed facts, from which it appeared that the Boston & Maine Railroad bought from Krupp & Co. in Germany a quantity of steel rails. They were loaded on board the Bjoemefjord at Antwerp, and delivered in Boston. The vessel was chartered under a charter party which provided for demurrage at a certain rate per day. The railroad paid for the rails by taking np bills of lading at the Second National Bank in Boston. These bills of lading did not refer to tho charter party, and the railroad did not know of it until part of the rails had…