District Court, S.D. New York December 8, 1908 (J. M. Guffey Petroleum Co. v. Coastwise Transportation Co.)

ADAMS, District Judge.

"The first of the above entitled actions was brought by the J. M. Guffey Company to recover from the Coastwise Transportation Company the damages, said to amount to $80,000, caused by an alleged breach of charter oí the schooner William L. Douglas, owned by the • Coastwise Company, on August 2.3, 1907, in withdrawing the vessel from the service of the libellant.