Important Shipping Case.
Invercaroilt., September 4 In the shipping case Waterston v. the Westport Coal Company, a claim of £58 for demurrage on the brigantine Sarah and Mary, the 'Magistrate, Mr Poynton, gave judgment for the plaintiff for £3-5. The question involved was whether the defendants had a right to give preference of loading to steamers notwithstanding an express stipulation in the contract that she was to be loaded "in regular turn." If it was the custom of the port, it was certainly a most extraordinary one, as if a sufficient number of steamers arrived sailing vessels might be kept for months awaiting cargo.
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Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8961, 6 September 1897, Page 3
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104Important Shipping Case. Colonist, Volume XL, Issue 8961, 6 September 1897, Page 3
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