Healy v. 219,399 Feet of Dressed Yellow Pine Lumber

Rodey, Judge,

delivered the following opinion:

This is a libel in admiralty filed by Mr. Healy against *400219,399 feet of dressed yellow pine lumber. The facts are that libellant is the owner of the brig “Gabriel,” and the New York & Porto Pico Steamship Company, acting as his agents, entered into a contract on the 15th of May, 1906, with Chas. S. ■Hirsch & Company of New York, that the boat should go from New York to Jacksonville, Florida, and take on a load of lumber and bring it to Aguadilla, 'Porto Pico, which it did. The contract or charter party is made out on a printed blank filled in…