Federal Sugar Refining Co. v. McDonald
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; M. T. Dooling, Judge. Suits in admiralty by the Federal Sugar Refining Company against the American steamship Fyra, and by J. A. McDonald, master of the Lyra, against the Federal Sugar Refining Company. From the decrees, the Sugar Refining Company appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
In May, 1910, the appellant shipped from the port of New York to San Francisco, by way of Cape Horn, *668112,000 sacks of sugar on the steamer Lyra. The voyage occupied 71 days, and on the termination thereof, it was found that 30,000 sacks of the sugar were caked. For that and other damage to the cargo the appellant filed its libel, alleging that the caking was due to improper stowage, care, and custody of the sugar, in that it was improperly dunnaged and protected, and that the compartment of the steamship in which it was stowed was insufficiently ventilated, by…
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