Adamson & Mail v. 4,300 Tons Pyrites Ore

Citations

• 137 F. 998
• 1905 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 241

Syllabus

<p>Charter Party—Construction—Demurrage.</p> <p>Where a vessel was chartered to load at a pier belonging to a town in a foreign port, in charge .of the captain .of the port, whose duty it was to assign vessels to berths at the pier, and he refused to permit the vessel to berth in her turn at the pier In a berth where she would project beyond the pier, resulting in a delay, such delay was caused by the. ‘‘intervention of constituted authorities,” within an exception in the chárter party relieving the charterers from liability for demurrage.</p> <p>[Ed. Note—Demurrage, see notes to Harrison v. Smith, 14 C. C. A. 657; Randall v. Sprague, 21 -C. -C. A. 337; Ha german v. Norton, 46 O. C. A. 4J</p>