Marx v. Natl. Steam-ship Co.

This libel in personam was filed to recover for the damages done to 35 drams of glycerine in the course of transportation from Marseilles to New York, for which .the respondents had issued a through bill of lading. The goods were shipped at Marseilles on board the steamer Euphrate. The bills of lading, dated February 17 and February 23, 1881, provided that the goods should “be forwarded by the steamer Euphrate to London, and to be then transhipped in and upon the steam-ship called the Canada, whereof is master, for the *681present voyage, Robinson, or whoever else may go as master, in said ship…