Lowry v. United States Shipping Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel in personam by E. Lowry and others against the United States Shipping Company to recover money alleged to be due from respondents as charterers of a steamship.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, .District Judge.
The above libel was filed to recover from the respondents two items, one of $181.19, a rebate from a stevedore’s bill, and the other an item of $240 for wharfage, both of which were charged by the respondents as charterers of the steamship Monk-seaton, against the libelants, as owners of the steamer, in the settlement of accounts under the charter made with the master at Hampton Roads, prior to the sailing of the vessel in June, 1896. These items appear distinctly upon a statement rendered by the respondents to the libelants subsequently to the settlement. The libel…
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