Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines v. Interocean Oil Co.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree in admiralty of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore, entered in favor of appellee, libelant below, for damage resulting from a shortage in a cargo of stove oil transported on appellant’s tank steamer, the Agwimoon.

The Agwimoon, a vessel built in 1920, was chartered January 14, 1927, to G. W. Me-Near, for its full capacity. It had been in dry dock from July 31 to August 2, 1926, for repairs, and had subsequently transported a cargo of oil from San Pedro to Japan, on return from which voyage she loaded the…