Pipe v. The La Salle

MANDELBAUM, District Judge.

The libelants herein have moved the court for an order overruling the respondent’s exceptions to the libel, and directing, that respondent answer the libel.

This is an admiralty action where thelibelants seek damages for the respondent’s-alleged violation of the contracts of carriage whereby, as a result thereof, four shipments of sugar from Manila to ports-along the East coast of the United States-were discharged at destination in an impaired condition. The papers submitted on this motion show that the shippers, the principals of the libelants, are Philippine…