The Southwark
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. On motion for leave to amend libel and for process in personam against owner of steamship.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
This action in rem was brought in February, 1895, to recover for damage to cargo amounting to $6,036. A stipulation in the sum of $7,500 was entered, and the vessel was released. The taking of testimony proceeded in a leisurely fashion, and the cause did not come up for argument until the 8th day of June, 1900. The libel was dismissed by the District Court in September of that year (104 Fed. 103), the decree being affirmed'by the Circuit Court of Appeals in the following May (108 Fed. 880, 48 C. C. A. 123). On appeal to the Supreme Court, however, the decree…
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