Glasgow Shipowners Co. v. Bacon

ADAMS, District Judge.

This action was brought by the Glasgow Shipowners Company, Limited, to recover from Daniel Bacon the sum of $1,262.99, claimed to be due for hire of the steamship Nile, under a charter party dated July 2, 1903. This amount was deducted from the hire for the whole period during which the steamship was in Mr. Bacon’s service, on a claim that the vessel had not, owing to a foul bottom, attained the speed she should have made during a voyage from Boston and New York to Progresso, Mexico, and Caibarien, Cuba, and return to New York.

The testimony shows that the vessel’s bottom…