Legal Opinion
Toyo Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha v. Willits & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 14, 1927No. 4906PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES, District Judge.
Decree in this ■ease was for libelants, and the respondent appealed. The proceeding was in personam.
The appellees were the consignees of merchandise which formed a part of the cargo of a ship owned by appellant which arrived in the port of San Francisco in May, 1924. It was found upon discharge of the cargo that the merchandise of appellees had been damaged by seawater. As a secondary cause of damage, it appeared that a lot of arsenic acid belonging to the appellee Pacific Orient Company had, after being wet by the seawater, contributed to contaminate and injure other of…
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