Pacific Coast Coal Co. v. Alaska S. S. Co.

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by claimants, owners of cargo shipped on the steamer Denali, from a decree of the district court exonerating the Alaska Steamship Company, the Denali’s owner, from liability for the total loss of their cargo in the stranding of that steamer on a submerged reef in the Caamano Passage,, British Columbia, on a voyage from Seattle, Washington, to Alaskan ports. The ■ proceedings commenced in a petition of the Steamship Company, filed September 4, 1935, for the limitation of and exoneration from liability provided by the Limitation Statutes, 46 U. S.C.A. §…