Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid Works, Inc. v. Chesapeake Lighterage & Towing Co.

WADDILL, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, libelant in the court below, on the 6th of July, 1925, filed its libel against the appellee, respondent below, to recover for damage to cargo in a cause civil and maritime. The appellant, engaged, among other things, in the manufacture and sale of fertilizers, with its place of business at Baltimore, was the owner of 240 tons of fertilizer in bags loaded on C. L. & T. lighter No. 75, for shipment from its plant at Curtis Bay, to the side of the steamship Delflna, then lying in the port of Baltimore, for transportation on said vessel to the island of Porto…