The Caledonier

PATTERSON, District Judge.

The commissioner has reported the sum of $9,736.55 as the damages sustained by the li-belants Picard et al., and the sum of $7,298.46 as the damages sustained by the libelants Jonas & Naumburg, Inc. The respondent has filed exceptions.

1. The first exception is that, although the commissioner limited recovery to $100 a bale, he permitted testimony to be introduced to show that the aetual market value of the bales, in sound condition, was higher than $100. The interlocutory decrees under which the commissioner was acting provided that the libelants recover their…