Georgia-Alabama Cotton Co. v. Warrior Packet Line

ERVIN, District Judge.

In this ease libelants delivered to the Warrior Packet Line, as a contract carrier, certain bales of cotton to be shipped to Mobile, order notify. Some of the cotton was loaded by the Packet Company on the steel barge No. 36 and some was loaded on the wooden barge No. 28.

There is a contention by the libelants that the Packet Company agreed to load this cotton on the steel barge No. 36, but for the purpose of this ease I do not deem' it necessary to pass on this question.

The two barges were then put in tow of the MAmie-D, a towboat. No. 36° was lashed in front of the'…