The Amsterdam

ADAMS, District Judge.

These actions were brought by the Mannheim Insurance Company, the assignee of Rothschild & Brother, to recover from the steamships Amsterdam and Rotterdam the damage alleged to have been caused to certain Sumatra tobacco, shipped on the said vessels for New York by the said assignors.

The claim against the Amsterdam is that the steamer on or about the 6th of May, 1901, received on board at Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, 128 cases of tobacco in good order, and duly issued a bill of lading agreeing to deliver the same in New York in the same good order; that she arrived at…