Standard Sugar Refinery v. Schooner Centennial

Kelson, D. J.

This is a libel in rem against vessel and freight for failure to deliver goods according to the terms of a bill of lading. It appears by the bill of lading and indorsements thereon that in May, 1879, the schooner Centennial, then lying in the port of Cardenas, in the island of Cuba, bound for Boston, received on board, in good order and well conditioned, 500 hogsheads of sugar, to be delivered in like good order and condition (the dangers of the seas only excepted) to the libellants, at Boston, they paying freight for the same. On her voyage to Boston she sprung a leak, and a…