Pacific Mail Steamship Co. v. New York, H. & R. Min. Co.

BROWN, District Judge.

The above actions grew out of a general average adjustment made September 14, 1893, pursuant to average bonds executed in New York by different consignees of cargo, in July, 1888, consequent on the stranding of the steamer City of Para, off Old Providence Island on May 17, 1888. The steamer was bound with a general cargo from Colon to New York, but was got off and brought to this port. The accident wras held by this court to have been caused through negligence; and the owners were held liable up to the value of the vessel and freight pending (44 Fed. 689). That amount…