Gottormsen called on the defendant and demanded that he should hand over the command of the str. Haitan, and showed him Letters from Mr. Cheong Wing-po authorizing Capt. Gottormsen to take command. The defendant's refusal to surrender the ship was clearly expressed in a letter from the New China Coast} Line, to whom the ship had been sold by the owner. Finally the defendant had been forced to. hand over the ship by order of H. M. Supreme Court, and he did so on December 6. 1927.
In the meantime, however, the owner had, owing to the defendants refusal, been unable to accept a firm offer to charter the ship for two months at $3,000 per month. The plaintiff had further paid the wages of the crew, and in all he claimed that $7,072 were due to him from the defendant,
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