The Charles Rohde

SOPER, District Judge.

The libelants, as owners of'a cargo of wheat, shipped on the schooner Charles Rohde, bring this libel in rem against her for damage to a portion of the cargo in the course of á voyage from Baltimore to West Point, Ya. The injury to the cargo is admitted, but the suit is defended on the ground that'the damage is within the exceptions in the bill of lading. That document was informal in character, but was issued subject to all the conditions of a standard form of bill of lading, and the parties have stipulated that the clause relevant to this controversy is that which…