Court Opinion

ID: 8635223
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 19:44:06.009454+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:55:54.349667
License: Public Domain

HELD
BY THE COURT (HALL, District Judge):
That the right of a libelant in a cause of damage to recover for the necessary detention of his vessel, if it shall appear that his vessel could have been profitably chartered or employed during such detention, is firmly established. [Williamson v. Barrett] 13 How. [54 U. S.] 101; 2 W. Rob. Adm. 279; 3 W. Rob. Adm. 232. That interest should be allowed on the actual cost of the necessary repairs from the time the payment therefor was actually made. The libelant is entitled to full indemnification for the injury sustained, and interest must be allowed, or he will not receive such indemnification. 2 W. Rob. Adm. 130; [St. John v. Paine] 10 How. [51 U. S.] 573, 574. That as to the sum allowed for repairs, although the evidence for the libelant is not as precise and definite and reliable as it might have been made by keeping a proper and separate account of the particular repairs rendered necessary by the collision, yet that of the claimants is still more unreliable. That as to all questions of fact the report of the commissioner must be sustained, unless it is quite apparent that he has erred. That as to the rate of demurrage, although the libelants’ evidence is not of the most satisfactory character, yet the claimants offered no evidence in contradiction; and, in the absence of ' such evidence, the report should not be disturbed. Exceptions overruled and report confirmed.