EGAN
v.
BARCLAY FIBRE CO.
527
EGAN v. BARCLAY FIBRE CO.' SMITH v. SAME. (DIstrict Court, S. D. New York. May 7, 1894.)
1.
DEMURRAGE-BILL OF LADING-DELIVERY «AS SOON AS POSSIBLE."
A provIsion in a bill of lading requiring delivery "as soon as possible" is equivalent to a provision for qUick dispatch, and requires the consignee to make use of all meaDS of discharge readily available, and does not admit of a detention of the vessel to suIt the convenience or business purposes of consignor and consignee.
2. SAME-DISCHARGE AT CONSIGNEE'S
Where defendant had a slip, on each side of which were suitable places for discharge, and two of the boats of libelant E. arrived there to discharge at the same time, but defendant, for its convenience, allowed the discharge on one side of the slip only, held, that libelant was entitled to demurrage for the detention of his boats for any period over and above the time It would have taken them to discharge simultaneously on opposite sides of the slip; and a second libelant, S., whose boats arrived subsequently to E.'s, was held entitled to demurrage for the period after E.'s boats should have been unloaded, and before S.'8 boats began to dis· charge.
These were two libels-one by John Egan, and the other by John A. Smith-against the Barclay Fibre Company, for demurrage for detention of libelant's canal boats on delivery of cargo. T. Clement Campbell, for libelant. Peter Cantine, for respondent. BROWN, District Judge. The bills of lading required delivery of the cargo "as soon as possible." This is equivalent to a provision for quick dispatch in unloading, and required the consignee to make use of all the means of discharge that were readily available; it did not admit of a detention of the vessels for such a disposition of the cargo as merely suited the convenience, or the business purposes, of the consignor and consignee. Each libelant had two canal boats loaded with wood. Egan's two boats arrived at Saugerties on the 29th of June. 'The defendant had a slip there in Esopus creek, and on each side of the slip were suitable places for the discharge of wood. Under such a stipulation in the bill of lading, I think it was the duty of the signee to admit of the discharge of the two vessels at both places at the same time, on the two opposite sides of the slip; and to supply men enough to remove the wood as fast as it was put upon the wharf by the vessel's men. The defendant, for its convenience, allowed the discharge on one side of the slip only, where a car track could be made use of for removing the wood to a shed some five or six hundred feet distant; and the second boat had, therefore, to wait until the first was discharged. The libelant chose to employ but four men to unload his wood. His witnesses testified that these were sufficient to remove the wood in two days. But what the men hired were capable of do1
Reported by E. G. Benedict, Esq., of the New York bar.
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FEDERAL REPORTER,
vol. 61.
ing, is not the question. The question is whether the defendant caused any further delay by not removing the wood as rapidly as the men employed by the were prepared to remove it from the boat, and would have removed it, but for the defendant's delay. The evidence shows a little delay through imperfection in the track, and also in the changes for empty and loaded cars. The time that the four men employed by the libelant would take to remove the wood c!J,nbe be arrived at best by looking at :the current' rate of wages, which the men expected to earn, the amount they usually received per day, and the rate per cord at which they contracted to unload these boats. This evidence shows that , from'30 to 40 cords per day is all that the four men expected to . remove, ,or would ordinarily have removed without any delays, and consequently that nearly three days would be required for the unloading of each of Egan's boats, which had 110 cords each. There ,was, ,no delay in thepreparatio,nsfor unloading after the arrival of Egan's boats on Thursday, the 29th of JUne. Work was begun OD,Friday the, 30th; on Saturday the men worked threequarters of a day only. As July 2d was Sunday, and the 4th a holiday, th,ree. days for unloading 110 cords would carry the unloading of the first boat to the' forenoon 'of the 5th. . 'rhe deck load of the second boat being previously removed, her discharge was completed upon the 7th. The first boat should, therefore, have been fully discharged by the forenoon of Wednesday the 5th; and the other boat by the same time, on the opposite side of the creek. rrhis libelant is, therefore, entitled to two days' demurrage on both boats, which I find to be of the value of $6 each per day, including the men, making $24, or with interest, $25.20. Smith's two boats arrived with about 83 cords each on the 30th of June. The defendant is not responsible for the delay caused by the use of the wharf by Egan's boats up to the time when his two boats should have been discharged, viz., by noon of the 5th of July. Mr. Smith employed the four men previously employed by Egan,and began discharging on the 7th, as soon as Egan's boats were unloaded. Upon the rule above stated, each of these boats should have been discharged in two and a half days, on the opposite 'sides of .the slip, and the discharge completed by the night of Friday the 7th. The discharge was not completed until the 13th. Smith is, therefore, entitled to six days' demurrage on his twoboats,amounting, at the same rate, to $72, adding interest, $75.60. Decrees may be entered accordingly, with costs.
JONES V. EVERETT LAND CO.
529
JONES v. EVERETT LAND CO. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. No. 106. L WRITS-SERVICE BY PUBLICATION-Tum FOR ApPEARANCE.
April 26, 1894.)
a
The amendment of Civ. Prac. Act. Wash. Terr. § 64, relating to servi.ce of summons by publication, by act of 1875, requiring a defendant so notified "to appear as if personally served within the county in which the complaint Is filed on the day of the last publication," prescribed the time of appearance, which must be within the 20 days fixed by sectiOn 60 'in case of personal service within the county. Civ. Prac. Act Wash. Terr. § 63, authoJ;izing an order "that service- be made by the publication of the summons," as amended in 1875 by omitting the words "of the summons," did not require publication of the complaint with the summons.
SAME-PUBLICATION OF COMPLAINT.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Washington. This was an action of ejectment by Charles F. Jones against the Everett Land Company. The circuit court directed, a verdict for defendant, and entered judgment accordingly. Plaintiff brought error. Wm. Lair Hill, Junius Rochester, A. D. Warner, W. R. Davis, and W. Scott Beebe, for plaintiff in error. Francis H. Brownell, for defendant in error. Before McKENNA and GILBERT, Circuit Judges, and HAWLEY, District Judge. McKENNA, Circuit Judge. This is an action of ejectment, brought by plaintiff in error against the defendant in error in the United States circuit court, district of Washington. Both parties derive title from Perrin C. Preston; the plaintiff by warranty deeds, and the defendant by sheriff's deed under a decree of foreclosure of a mortgage given prior to the deed to plaintiff in error. The controversy between the parties is at to the sufficiency of the service in the foreclosure suit. The suit was brought September 2, 1876, and service was made by publication, and gave 30 days to appear. The plaintiff contends that it should have required Perrin to appear within 60 days after service, the service being completed after the publication of the summons. The provision for the issuance and ser'ice of summons is as follows: "Sec. 60. The clerk shall endorse on the complaint the day, month, and year the same is filed, and at any time within one year after the filing of the same, the plalntitr may have a summons issued. The summons shall run in the name of the United States of America, be signed by the clerk, tested in the name of the judge of the court from which It issues, be directed to defendant, and be Issued under the seal of the court. The summons shall state the parties to the action, the court in which it is brought, the county in which the complaint is filed, and cause and general nature of the action, and require the defendant to appear and answer the complaint within the time mentioned In this. s.ection, after the service of the summons, exclusive of the day of serv-
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