Oneida Nav. Co. v. L. Richardson & Co.

MAYER, Circuit Judge.

The action is in admiralty, in effect to recover damages for the alleged wrongful cancellation by the charterer of a charter party dated September 18, 1918, of the “American auxiliary schooner Percy Pyne II of New York.” This charter was executed while the schooner was on a voyage from Africa to Boston. On her arrival at Boston on September 30, 1917, it was found that she was in a very badly damaged condition, although neither party had any knowledge of such condition at the time the charter was made.

The charter party described libelant as owners “of the American…