The Alert
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. On motion that charterers be made co-defendants with the ship.
1Opinion of the CourtBrowN, J.
The Alert was a chartered ship, and, being sued in rem for negligent damage to cargo, by the breaking of her tackle while discharging, under the charterers, her owners in their answer say that the tackle was furnished either by the shipper or by the charterers, under a special agreement between them, and not by the ship, and they now move that the charterers be made co-defendants. Unless this is done, there may be three independent suits on the same question. Most of the considerations mentioned in the case of The Hudson, 15 Fed. Rep. 162, are applicable; and I think the motion should be…
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