The Rancagua
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Canal Zone; Wm. H. Jackson, Judge. Libel by the Cristobal-Colon Stevedoring Company against the steamship Rancagua and others. From a decree dismissing the libel, the li-belant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a libel in admiralty against the steamship Rancagua and its cargo. The libel alleged that the master of the vessel, in his own be*844half and as the agent for the charterers, entered into a contract with the libelant, by the terms of which contract the master agreed to pay to the libelant a stated amount per ton for discharging the vessel’s cargo of about 8,000 tons of nitrates; that the libelant was ready and willing tot perform the contract, but, without fault on its part, was prevented from doing so; and that the master of the…
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- Schooner Freeman, &C. v. BuckinghamSupreme Court of the United States · 1856
- The KeokukSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- The City of Baton RougeU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Louisiana · 1883
- The StrathnairnDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1911
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- Blair v. M/V BLUE SPRUCEDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1970