The American Admiralty; Its Jurisdiction and Practice, with Practical Forms and Directions

📒 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... Bald report, amounting to 13,846.12, and for demurrage of said steamship Beaconsfield the sum of $5,421.50, with interest thereon from January 12th, 18--, to July 2d, 18--, amounting to $804.19, the whole amounting to the sum of $35,655.79; That the damages sustained by the libellant C. F. C. & Co., by reason of said collision be and the same hereby are assessed as follows: For damages to the steamship Britannia the sum of $3,582.98, with interest thereon from December 14th, 18--, to July 2d, 18--, the date of said report, amounting to $541.25, and for demurrage of said steamship Britannia the sum of $1,560, with interest thereon from December 1st, 18--, to July 2d, 18--, amounting to $242.23, the whole amounting to $5,926.46. And the costs of the libellant, O. C., having been taxed at the sum of $601.68, and the costs of the libellant, C. F. C. & Co., having been taxed at the sum of $374.81: Now therefore, it is hereby Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that the libellant, G. C., recover against the steamship Britannia, her engines, etc., one half of the excess of the amount of the damages sustained by him, hereinbefore assessed at $35,655.79, over the amount of the damages sustained by the libellant, C. F. F. & Co., hereinbefore assessed at $5,926.46, to wit, the sum of $14,864.66, in addition to one-half of the difference between the amount of the costs taxed by the respective llbellants, amounting to $113.43, and amounting in all to the sum of $14,978.09, and that the said steamship Britannia, her engines, etc., be condemned to pay the same: and it is further Ordered that, unless an appeal be taken from this decree within the time limited by the rules and practice of this court, the stipulators for costs and value on the part of the...