Proctor, 66 Fed. 240; 13 C.C.A. 426.) The stipulated compensation to Redondo was presumptively the measure of damages, the burden of proof being on the defendant to show that less than that sum was suffered as damages, and, in the absence of such proof, plaintiff is entitled to recover the stipulated rate. (Utter v. Chapman, 38 Cal. 659; Muriel v. Whiting, 32 Ala. 55; Dean v. Ritter, 18 Mo. 182; Bradley v. Denton, 3 Wis. 557; TheNathaniel Hooper, 3 Sum. 555; Jordan v. Warren Ins. Co., 1 Story, 343, 354; The Gazelle, 128 U.S. 474, 487.) 23 Am St. Rep. 469.