The Tjomo
District Court, S.D. Alabama
In Admiralty. Suit in rem to recover damages for loss of cattle in shipment.
1Opinion of the Court
TOUDMIN, District Judge.
The libelant brings this suit to recover damages for breach, of contract on the part of the vessel to deliver a cargo of cattle shipped by him to Havana, Cuba. The ship sailed August n, 1901, and while on her voyage, on the night of the I2th-i3th of August, encountered a terrific storm in the Gulf of Mexico, in which many of the cattle were lost by being carried overboard or killed or injured by the breaking down of the superstructure of the cattle fittings upon the deck, which was in great part broken away and also carried overboard. The bill of lading contains the…
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