The Miguel Di Larrinaga

HOUGH, District Judge.

'Libelant was consignee and owner of certain heavy machinery, which had been transported on this British steamer from Liverpool to Guantanamo. While one heavy piece was being put ashore at the latter port, a stay, broke. This permitted the mast to buckle, and the boom from which the machine hung to settle, so that the hanging piece of metal came down on another machine, to the injury of both. The machinery had been taken aboard at Liverpool in the same way, and with , the same stay, mast, and boom. Examination showed the stay to be worn. No recent inspection of it is…