Grace v. The Mauna Loa

BROWN, District Judge.

The above libel was filed by William R. Grace & Co., of New York, the charterers of the British bark Mauna Loa, and owners of a cargo of nitrates shipped at Caleta Buena, to recover for a certain loss of nitrates in unloading and reloading at Valparaiso, a port of refuge, and also to recover, as assignees of a bottomry and respondentia bond for £2422.6.2, executed by the master to Grace & Co., of Valparaiso, in 1893, under the following circumstances:

The cargo being loaded pursuant to charter at Caleta Buena, the ship, on July 26, 1893, sailed for New York. On the 13th…