Robert A. Munroe Co. v. Chesapeake Lighterage & Towing Co.

ROSE, District Judge.

In pursuance of an order from the libel-ant, the respondent the Chesapeake Lighterage and Towing Company, hereinafter called the Chesapeake, sent its scow 424 for a lot of kainit, belonging to the libelant, and then on the recently arrived steamship Victorious. The Atlantic Transport Company was doing the ship’s stevedoring, and it loaded the scow with 285 tons of libelant’s merchandise. Witnesses differ as to the exact way in which the loading was done, but there is nothing to show or to suggest that any lack of care and skill on the stevedore’s part contributed to the…