WARD, Circuit Judge.
September 25, 1919, C. G. Blake Company, Inc., as agents for Bensaude & Co., of Lisbon, chartered the schooner Lewis H. Goward to carry a cargo of coal to the Azores. This charter party contained an express warranty of seaworthiness, and the freight was paid in advance, not recoverable vessel and/or cargo lost or not lost.
October 31, 1919, the schooner sailed from Newport News with a cargo of 1,726 tons. She encountered heavy weather...
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