CULLEN FUEL CO. v. HEDGER CO.

No. 9.

290 U.S. 82 (1933)

CULLEN FUEL CO., INC., v. W.E. HEDGER, INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Horace L. Cheyney for petitioner.

Mr. Thomas H. Middleton, with whom Mr. Forrest E. Single was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner owned a deck scow known as Cullen No. 32. The respondent wished to use her to lighter ore from ship-side in New York harbor to the plant of the Grasselli Chemical Co., the consignee of the ore. A charter for an indefinite term, at a fixed daily rate of hire, was orally arranged by telephone with the petitioner's marine superintendent. The day following...

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