Glasgow Steam Shipping Co. v. Tweedie Trading Co.

ADAMS, District Judge.

The first of the above entitled actions, the Glasgow Steam Shipping Company against the Tweedie Trading-Company, was brought to recover certain unpaid hire of the steamship Kelvinbank, under charter dated November 13, .1903, amounting to $1,837.68 and an additional sum of $500 for the balance claimed to be due by the respondent on 625 tons of coal on board of the steamer when it was delivered on the 3rd of December, 1903, making $2,337.68. The respondent defends on the ground that the libellant refused to allow the steamer to proceed to- the River Plate, South America,…