The Oakley C. Curtis

HAZEL, District Judge.

This is a libel to recover $146,000 damages to a cargo of linseed transported in the five-masted schooner Oakley C. Curtis from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to New York, and chartered by libelant expressly for the voyage. There were transported 47,414 bags of linseed, which required the entire cargo space, and on arrival of the schooner in New York at her place of unloading it was discovered that nearly half her cargo, about 40,460 bushels of linseed, was damaged by seawater, and there was also, it is claimed, a shortage of 1,315 bags. The vessel left Buenos Aires on April…