Brown v. Gill & Fisher, Ltd.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Libel by John L. Brown, owner of the steamship Harbinger, against Gill & Fisher, limited, to recover for breach of contract of charter party.
1Opinion of the Court
Butler, District Judge.
The respondents chartered the British steamship Harbinger on November 5, 1891, to carry a cargo of grain from Philadelphia to Cork, for orders, at the rate of four shillings and nine pence a quarter. The charter contains the provisions usual in such instruments. Fifteen lay days are allowed lor loading,—not to commence running before the 1st of January, 1892. It is stipulated that the ship shall proceed “with all convenient speed to Philadelphia,” and load; and that if she “shall not be ready to load on or before the 81st” of that month the charterers may refuse her.…
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