The C. W. Elphicke

HAZEL, District Judge.

The libel in this cause was filed against the steamship C. W. Elphicke for damages to her cargo of flaxseed during a voyage on the Great Lakes from the port of Duluth, Minn., to the port of Buffalo, N. Y. The damages sustained by the Albert Dickinson Company, owners of the cargo, were paid by libelants,, marine insurance companies, which thereupon became subrogated to the rights of the cargo owners. The respondent claims that the damage was occasioned solely through perils of the sea. The proofs on the main issue of the Elphicke’s seaworthiness at the commencement of the…