Jensen v. Matson Navigation Co.

McLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

This suit was filed January 25, 1946, under the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act of 1936, as amended, 46 U.S.C.A. § 1300. It was brought originally against the Mat-son Navigation Company, alleging it to be liable for damage to goods, namely, a wax museum, shipped in January 1945 aboard one of its vessels from San Francisco to Honolulu and delivered on or about February 13, 1945.

After it appeared on September 7, 1946, from the answer of the Matson Navigation Company that its vessel at the time alleged was under the control of the War Shipping Administration, the…