U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine September 15, 1867, Case No. 4,710 (Fearing v. . Cheeseman)

CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.

Appellants contend that they never became liable under the charter-party, because the proofs show, as they insist, that the owners of the vessel never fulfilled the stipulations of the charter-party on their part; that the delay of the vessel in arriving at the place of loading operated as a breach of the contract, and discharged them from all obligations to furnish her