H. Liebes & Co. v. Klengenberg

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal and cross-appeal from a final decree in admiralty. In view of the two appeals, we will refer to the parties as they were designated in the court below.

The libel contains two causes of action: The first for failure on the part of the respondent to deliver certain merchandise and supplies at a point on the Wollaston Peninsula in the Arctic Ocean, about 1,260 miles from the North Pole; and the second for failure on the part of the respondent to transport certain furs from the point on the Wollaston Peninsula to San Francisco. The facts and surrounding…