THE WESTMORELAND


14 F.Supp. 762 (1936)

THE WESTMORELAND.

District Court, S. D. New York.

February 19, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City (Henry N. Longley and Ezra G. Benedict Fox, both of New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

Lynch & Hagen, of New York City (Horace T. Atkins and Charles W. Hagen, both of New York City, of counsel), for claimant-respondent.


PATTERSON, District Judge.

The suit is for damage to a cargo of ammonia sulphate carried on the barge Westmoreland.

The Westmoreland was a wooden barge of the schooner type, designed and used for the coastwise trade. She generally carried cargoes of coal out of Norfolk. In September, 1932, the respondent made a charter of the barge to the libelant's assignor, Eastern Cotton Oil Co., Inc., for a voyage from Everett, Mass., to Norfolk, Va., to carry 1,000 tons...

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