Lumbermen's Min. Co. v. Gilchrist’s Empirical Analysis
50 F. 118 · 1891
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1927
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Norrington v. Wright · Filley v. Pope · Lowber v. Bangs
Most-quoted passages
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““Vessel Charter. Agreement betwen .T. C. Gilchrist, of Vermillion, Ohio, as managing owner of the vessel called the B. F. Bruce, and ,1. H. Outhwaite & Co'., of Cleveland, Ohio, as agents for Lumberman’s Mining Company, made at Cleveland, Ohio, this 4th day of February, 1886. Witnesseth, that the said J. C. Gilchrist, for the considerations hereinafter named, hereby agrees that said vessel shall carry eight (8) cargoes of iron ore for the said J. H. Outhwaite & Co., agents, during the season of 1886, from Escanaba, Michigan, to Lake Erie ports, (not east of Erie,) at a rate of freight of one dollar ($1.00) per ton of 2,240 pounds. It is understood that tlio above number of trips shall bo distributed through the season of navigation of 1886 as equally as possible in regard to time. It is also understood that the said vessel shall be constantly towed by the propeller N. K. Fairbanks, during the life of this contract. There shall he allowed an average of four days’ time for loading said vessel, and for furnishing a. dock at which to discharge; the time to he reckoned from the hour when paid vessel reported and was ready to load, until loaded, and from the time when reported at port of destination, and was ready to unload, until a dock ■>vas furnished. The time of such reporting in both cases not to date from an hour earlier than 8 o’clock A. M. or later than 5 o’clock P. M.; Sundays, public holidays, and time lost in consequence of heavy seas, or any other causes beyond the c”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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