The Fred E. Hasler

FRANK J. COLEMAN, District Judge.

1. The principal question is whether libelant had title to the oil which was lost. On May 5,1928, the libelant purchased from the Rosshavet Company the cargo of whale oil to' be produced on board the steamship Ross in the Antarctic. On April 15th of the following year the steamer arrived at New York, where she was placed at a pier and commenced discharging her cargo into a barge chartered by the libelant for carriage to libelant’s plant at Port Ivory, Staten Island. The barge sank before she was discharged at Port Ivory, and under the interlocutory decree…