The Westminster
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of'the. United States for the Fastern District' of 'Pennsylvania." ................• .....
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.
This was a libel filed by the appellants against the steamship City of Westminster to-recover damages for injury to certain bales of jute cloth and burlap on the voyage from London to Philadelphia, by reason, as alleged, of improper stowage. The passage was a stormy one, and the injury received, which was unquestioned, was attributed by the claimant, not to bad stowage, which was denied, but to the extreme severity of the weather encountered. Notwithstanding the evidence upon the subject, we incline to the view that, if the case were to be disposed of upon this issue,…
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