Menendez v. The Keystone

This libel was filed to recover damages for injury to a quantity of provisions which were shipped on board the brig Keystone in January, 1885, to be delivered at Caibarien, Cuba, and were damaged, as the libel charges, through “had stowage, and the carriage of unsuitable and improper cargo in said vessel, or the taking off of the hatches improperly.” The brig was loaded by the charterer, to whom she had been chartered, “for a full cargo of lawful merchandise under and on deck.” After she was about two-thirds loaded with a cargo of “cooperage,” so called, consisting of hoops and shooks of…