The T. A. Goddard
District Court, S.D. New York
This libel was filed to recover the amount of damages to 959 packages of tea on board the bark T. A. Goddard, alleged to have been injured by camphor on a voyage from Hong Kong to New York.
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This libel was filed to recover the amount of damages to 959 packages of tea on board the bark T. A. Goddard, alleged to have been injured by camphor on a voyage from Hong Kong to New York. The tea was shipped at Foochow, December 18, 1877, by Purdon & Go., on board the steamer Orestes, under a bill of lading which recited that the “teas were shipped at Foochow on board the steamer Orestes for transhipment at Hong Kong on the good Vessel called the ‘T. A. Goddard,’ whereof Smith is master for this present voyage, now lying at Hong Kong and bound for New York; * * * tobe delivered at New York…
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, D. J.
From all the evidence in the case I am satisfied that the injury to the teas from the fumes of the camphor must have arisen on board the T. A. Goddard. They are proved to have been in good condition when shipped on board the Orestes at Foochow, and that vessel had no camphor aboard. The teas were transferred “direct” to the T. A. Goodard at Hong Kong, which took *177a quantity of camphor aboard in the poop immediately over where the teas were stowed. The teas were unloaded on the day of tho arrival of the bark at New York, or on the day following, and were then found to be so scented…
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