The Skipton Castle
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the American Import Company, a corporation, Tillman & Bendel, a corporation, James F. Do Fremery and Henri M. S'uermondt, partners as Jas. De Fremery & Co., and the Appolinaris Company, Limited, against the British steamer Skipton Castle; the Lancashire Shipping Company, Limited, claimant.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the American Import Company, a corporation, Tillman & Bendel, a corporation, James F. Do Fremery and Henri M. S'uermondt, partners as Jas. De Fremery & Co., and the Appolinaris Company, Limited, against the British steamer Skipton Castle; the Lancashire Shipping Company, Limited, claimant. Decree for libel-ants, and claimant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HUNT, Circuit Judge.
Action for damages to cargo. The British steamer Skipton Castle, bound to- San Pedro and San Francisco, loaded at Antwerp in December, 1910, with a quantity of bottled mineral water, willow baskets, and general cargo. When the ship arrived at the ports of discharge in February, 1911, a great many of the bottles were found in broken condition and the baskets had rotted. Shipment was under bills of lading stipulating that the ship- should not be liable for loss or damage occasioned, among other things, by .“sweating, leakage, breakage, wastage, decay, or the indirect causes…
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