Pennant Oil & Grease Co. v. Swayne & Hoyt, Ltd.

SHEPPARD, District Judge.

This is a libel to recover cargo damage. The jurisdictional facts are stipulated. It is further stipulated that respondent and the steamship Point Brava received at the port of New Orleans, La., approximately 147,131 gallons of lubricating oil for transportation to the port of Los Angeles, Cal., that said oil was stowed in the deep tank of the said Point Brava, and did not contain any salt water in it at the time it was received by respondent, and that upon delivery of the cargo at Los Angeles it contained a certain amount of salt water, the presence of which was…