Botany Worsted Mills v. Knott
District Court, S.D. New York
These were libels filed, respectively, by the Botany Worsted Mills, and by Henry P. Winter and others, against James Knott, to recover for damage to cargo shipped on board the Portuguese Prince, which is o/wned by respondent.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The respondent, the owner of the British steamship Portuguese Prince, is sued in the above libels for damages to two lots of wool in bales shipped on board at, Pernambuco, arising from contact of the bales with sugar drainage upon the voyage to New York, where she arrived on March 30, 1895.
The bales of wool were stowed on end in the No. 1 (forward) compartment of the ’tween decks; and wet Pernambuco sugar, from which there is always some drainage, was stowed on the same deck, next aft of the wool, and separated from it by a tem*583porary bulkhead. There was sufficient means…
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