Hewlett v. The Millie R. Bohannon
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel by George Hewlett and others against the schooner Millie 11. Bohannon to recover for damages caused by leakage to a quantify of sugar.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN'. District Judge.
On a voyage of the three-masted schooner Millie E. Bohannon from Cardenas to New York, where she arrived on May 25, 1894, the libelants’ consignment of 3,400 bags of sugar, stowed on top of mahogany m the bottom of I,he hold, was damaged by sea water, some bags on discharge being empty, and some partly empty. The evidence leaves no doubt that there was no extraordinary weather upon the voyage; that the ship, nevertheless, sprang a leak on the 14th of May, during a calm, in which she was unmanageable and lay rolling in a heavy swell; and that the leak which began between…
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