Donkin v. Herbst’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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1. ““In undertaking to send the ship to ports outside the charter limits, it was the charterer’s business, not the owners’ business, to get suitable papers, and the persons employed in doing that business were the charterer’s agents, whether the master or other person. In diverting the ship to ports not allowed by the charter, the charterer took the risk of securing to the ship the proper entrance permits, and is not entitled to charge any error of the master in that respect, if there was any, upon the owners. * * * The owners were under no duty to obtain papers for Progresso [the port outside the charter limits], since they never authorized the ship to go there; and the master’s defaults, if any, in dealing with the charterer in that regard, did not become the defaults of the owners.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Orr & Laubenheimer Co. v. The Nicaragua