
    Case. No. 17,019.
    VOWELL et al. v. COLUMBIAN INS. CO.
    (3 Cranch, C. C. 83.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1827.
    General Average.
    The charges of entering a harbor for repairs, the surveyor’s bill, and port-charges, are items of general average, and are the subject of general contribution.
    Case [by Thomas Vowell and others] on policy of schooner Mary, valued at $1500, for six months from the 29th June, 1824.
    The question for the court was whether the charges of entering the harbor to make the- repairs, the surveyor’s bill, and port-charges, .are items of general average, or are a part of the loss, for which the defendants are liable under the policy. Phil. Ins. 346, c. 15, § 4.
   THE COURT

(nem. con.) was of opinion that those charges were the subject of general contribution.  