The Matilde Peirce

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The cargo involved consisted of a shipment of 1,000 barrels of cherries in brine at Bar-letta, Italy, and a further shipment of 1,302 barrels of similar merchandise at Monopoli. This merchandise was to be carried on the Matilde Peirce to New York, consigned to the American Trading Company, and the bills of lading contained no admission as to the condition of the goods.

Rodman, a surveyor of the cargo for the libelant, testified that when it arrived at New York many of the barrels were dry, and some of them were so crushed that they would not hold the brine; that…