The Indien

McCORMICK, District Judge.

This is a libel in admiralty against the Danish motorship Indien for cargo damage. No jurisdictional issue is urged as to the sufficiency of the parties litigant, or as to the fact that the eargo, to which libelant was entitled to delivery upon its arrival in Japanese ports, was damaged on the voyage across the Pacific Ocean from Victoria, British Columbia, The defenses interposed by the claimant and owner, which has duly appeared, are special and are to the effect that the ship was in all respects seaworthy and that due diligence was exercised to make her so before…