Jenkins S. S. Co. v. Cargo of Barley

TUTTLE, District Judge.

This is a libel in rem, filed by the Jenkins Steamship Company, an Ohio corporation, against a cargo of barley, which, was carried by the libelant in its barge Alexander Maitland from Pt. William, Ontario, to Port Huron, Mich.; the object of the libel being to enforce against said cargó the maritime lien thereon claimed by the libelant for the payment of the freight alleged by it to be due for carrying such cargo between the aforementioned points in such barge.

The material facts, as disclosed by the record and found by this court, are as follows;

On December 1,1924, the…