Howell v. The Mary L. Peters
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel by Benjamin H. Howell and others against the schooner Alary L. Peters to recover damages to a cargo of sugar.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN. District Judge.
The above libel was filed to recover for damages to bags of sugar upon a voyage from Sagua La Grande to New York in February and Alar eh, 1894. The damage arose from sea water taken in through the decks, and in the waterways and around the coamings of the hatches.
The evidence of very severe weather on the voyage is in this case much stronger, in my judgment, than in the case of The Centurion, 68 Fed. 382, in which the court of appeals in this dis*920trict has recently held the ship exempted by reason of sea perils. If I -were satisfied of the reasonably fit condition of the…
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