Deck-cargo {timber) lawfully laden pursuant to charterparty, having broken adrift in consequence of stormy weather, and impending the navigation and endangering the safety of the vessel, was necessarily thrown overboard.
Held: that the shipper was entitled to claim general average in respect thereof, as against the ship-owner.
Judges:
Cockburn CJ
Citations:
[1865] EngR 665, (1865) 19 CB NS 563, (1865) 141 ER 907
Links:
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Versloot Dredging Bv and Another v Hdi Gerling Industrie Versicherung Ag and Others SC 20-Jul-2016
The ‘DC MERWESTONE’ suffered a water ingress of water flooding the engine room. This resulted from (i) the negligence of the crew in failing to close the sea inlet valve of the emergency fire pump and drain down the system, after they had used the . .
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Insurance, Transport
Updated: 20 May 2022; Ref: scu.281577
