The Randwyk
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore; John C. Rose, Judge. Suit in admiralty by the Piedmont-Mt. Airy Guano Company against the steamship Randwyk; the Randwyk Steamship Company, owner, and the Holland-American Line, charterer, claimants. Decree for libel-ant, and claimants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The steamship Randwyk, of the Holland-American Line, arrived in Baltimore Harbor on Friday,-December 11, 1914, with 557 bags of potash and 214,172 kilograms of kainit, in bulk, delivered by the libelant, Piedmont-Mt. Airy Guano Company, to the ship at Rotterdam, consigned to itself at Baltimore. The bill of lading provided that the merchandise was “to be delivered from the ship’s deck (where the shipowner’s responsibility shall cease).” The Guano *725Company, on the clay of arrival, sent a scow alongside to receive the good,-) and transfer them from the ship to the scow. The…
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