The Citta Di Messina
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libels for cargo damage. The Messina is an Italian cargo steamer of 2,564 gross and 1,556 net tons, and was in the year 1908 plying between Mediterranean ports and New York in what was known as the “Creole Line.”
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In Admiralty. Libels for cargo damage. The Messina is an Italian cargo steamer of 2,564 gross and 1,556 net tons, and was in the year 1908 plying between Mediterranean ports and New York in what was known as the “Creole Line.” From July to October vessels in this trade bound for the United States frequently stop at the Spanish ports of Gandía and Denia for onions, and during the same months, or some of them, stop also at Almería and Malaga for grapes and other local products. The “onion ports” are but 15 miles apart, and at them between August 31 and September 2, 1908, the Messina received a…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, District Judge
(after stating facts as above). It is obviously advantageous, if not essential, to libelants’ case, to show that the facts found constitute deviation. That “deviation” is a term of art, belonging in the main to the law of marine insurance, and to be interpreted by that law, seems to me to have been overlooked in argument; and this belief on my part must excuse some review of the subject *475If an insured shipowner fails to pursue that course of navigation which experience and usage have prescribed as the safest and most expeditious mode of proceeding from one voyage terminus to the other, he…
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