The Black Hawk

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The libel-lants shipped, at San Francisco, on the 18th ■of June, 1875, on board of the ship Black Hawk, for New York, sixty-seven pipes and half-pipes of California wine, for which the ■ship gave a bill of lading stating that there were sixty-seven packages of wine; that they were shipped in good order and condition, except that casks Nos. 278, 285 and 288 had broken shaves when received; and that they were to be delivered in “like” good order and condition at New York, at the ship’s tackles, the dangers of the seas, sweat, fire •and collision excepted. The bill of…