Janney v. Tudor Co.

Nelson, D. J.

This is a libel in personam, against the owners of the ship Iceberg, to recover for loss and damage of 2,502 baigs of cutch, on a voyage from Calcutta to Boston. It appeared at the hearing that the cutch was received on board the Iceberg at Calcutta, in the months of January and February, 1878, in good order and condition, and bills of lading were delivered for the same, containing the usual exception of the perils of the sea, and the memorandum, “weights and contents unknown.”

The ship sailed from Calcutta early in March, and arrived in Boston in the following July. In the course…