United Transp. & Lighterage Co. v. New York & Baltimore Transp. Line
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the United Transportation & Lighterage Company against the New York“& Baltimore Transportation Line, and cross-libel by respondent against libelant.
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In Admiralty. Suit by the United Transportation & Lighterage Company against the New York“& Baltimore Transportation Line, and cross-libel by respondent against libelant. The original libel was filed by the lighterage company to recover for lighter-age services rendered respondent during a' period definitely stated, and pursuant to a verbal contract whereby libelant for an agreed rate of pay undertook “to lighter goods and merchandise at the port of New York from the vessels owned and controlled by the respondent to various points * * * and also to lighter goods and merchandise from (said)…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The first question suggested is this: During all the times covered by the pleadings herein were two contracts or only one contract made between the parties to this litigation? A complete and final definition of the word “contract” will perhaps never be reached, but I know of no better description of a business or commercial compact than that approved by Washington, J., in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 4 Wheat., at page 656 (4 L. Ed. 629):
“A transaction between two or more persons in which each party comes under an obligation to the other and each…
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