Polar Steamship Corp. v. Inland Overseas Steamship Corp.

PARKER, Circuit Judge;

These are cross appeals in a suit in admiralty brought by the Inland Overseas Steamship Corporation against the Polar Steamship Corporation to recover damages for breach of a bareboat charter under which the steamship “Hampton Roads” was leased by Polar to Inland. Swiss Industries, Inc., intervened claiming damages for breach of a contract which it had made with Inland for transportation of toluol on the vessel. The District Judge found that the charter party had been breached by Polar and referred the cause to J. Hume Taylor, Esq., as Special Commissioner to ascertain…