Case Name: BOWIE et al. v. WHEELRIGHT
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1819-04
Citations: 3 F. Cas. 1070
Docket Number: 
Parties: BOWIE et al. v. WHEELRIGHT.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 3
Pages: 1070–1070

Head Matter:
Case No. 1,733.
BOWIE et al. v. WHEELRIGHT.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 167.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1819.
Shipping — Charter-Pabty—Construction—Def-inition — “Charter and to Freight Let.”
In a charter-party, the words “charter and to freight let,” do not imply a covenant, in law, that the vessel is or shall be seaworthy.
At law. Covenant, on a charter-party. Breach, that the vessel was not seaworthy. General demurrer and joinder. The charter-party, upon oyer, did not appear to contain :any express covenant of seaworthiness.
Mr. Taylor, for the defendant^
contended that the defendant could not be made lia'ble, unless there was an express warranty, or fraud, or misrepresentation.
Mr. Swann, for the plaintiffs [Bowie and Kur.tz],
contended that a covenant is implied in the act of hiring the vessel.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent)
decided that the charter-party, not containing an express averment that the vessel was seaworthy, could not support the averment of such a covenant in the declaration.