PALMER & PARKER CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 1973.

10 F.2d 214 (1926)

PALMER & PARKER CO. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

January 16, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gaston, Snow, Saltonstall & Hunt, Russell, Moore & Russell, John W. Lowrance, and Gibbs, Guptill & Lowrance, all of Boston, Mass., for libelant.

Charles P. Curtis, Jr., and Laurence Curtis, 2d, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of Boston, Mass., for the United States.


MORTON, District Judge.

This is a libel under the Suits in Admiralty Act (Act March 9, 1920 [Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1923, §§ 1251¼-1251¼l]) to recover damages to a cargo of mahogany logs shipped by the libelant on the steamship Mt. Shasta, owned by the United States Shipping Board. It was heard on oral and written evidence. The facts are as follows:

Under date of May 19, 1920, the Shipping Board chartered the Mt. Shasta to the Mt....

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