Brousseau v. Ship Hudson

This is an action to recover the sum of $991 84, the alleged damage of four bales of carpeting shipped at New York on hoard of the ship Hudson, to be delivered to the plaintiffs at New Orleans.

The fact that the alleged damage was occasioned by the bursting of four casks of chloride of lime in the hold of the vessel, appears to be conceded. The cause of the accident, it would seem, has been attributed to an excess of unslacked lime in the composition of the chloride.

A witness in the employment of the ship’s husband, testified to the fact of the importation of chloride of lime for upwards of…