Cities Service Transp. Co. v. Gulf Refining Co.

We need consider no other question in this case than whether the libellant, the owner, was at fault as well as the charterer. This suit was for breach of a charter party in which the charterer agreed that “the steamer shall load and discharge at a place or at a dock or alongside lighters * * * which shall be indicated by charterers and where she can lie always afloat.” The charterer’s port captain pointed out the place where she should lie to load and the master took his word for it and did not sound. The ship took a strand and the suit is for the injuries suffered. The qxxestion is of the…