Legal Opinion
The John Francis
District Court, S.D. Alabama
Decided January 5, 1911No. 1,244PublishedCited by 5 opinions
In Admiralty. Libel by the Tropical Lumber Company against the schooner John Francis.
1Opinion of the Court
TOULMIN, District Judge.
This is a suit corresponding to an action for money had and received. It is to recover money alleged to have been unjustly and illegally demanded and received by the master *747of the schooner Francis for demurrage and for other items claimed by. him as expenses incurred at Tu'xpan, Mexico, in and about the care, and protection of a cargo of lumber belonging to libelants, and shipped by them under a contract of affreightment with said schooner to Tux-pan. The cargo was to be delivered at the port of discharge to a con-, signee on presentation of the bill of lading issued…
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