The Indrapura
District Court, D. Oregon
In Admiralty. Suit by the British & Foreign Marine Insurance Company, Limited, against the Portland & Asiatic Steamship Company, the steamship Indrapura, the Indrapura Steamship Company, Limited, claimant, in which the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company intervened.
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
What has previously been determined on exceptions to the libel in this case I find no occasion for *854amending or modifying. By averment in the libel it appears that the-steamship Indrapura was put in dry dock without maritime necessity therefor. Controverting this averment, two of the respondents answer that it is true the Indrapura was put into dry dock with a partial' cargo on board, but that this was done in pursuance of a usage and custom which was general as to the port of Hong Kong and the ports of the Orient and of the world, and that such usage and custom, as…
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