The Patria

ADAMS, District Judge.

This is an action brought to recover ■damages for failure to deliver certain calf skins in the condition in which they were shipped and for the non-delivery of others. The ■shipment was made at Marseilles, -France, on the 5th day of April, 1901, on the steamship Patria, which reached New York and discharged her cargo about the end of the same month. No allegation is made in the libel as to any improper stowage on the part of the vessel or other unseaworthiness, but the burden is thrown upon the vessel to show that there was no failure of duty on her part leading to the…