Gladioli v. Standard Export Lumber Co.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

The principal question in this appeal is whether the failure to furnish a ship with correct charts and similar data at the beginning of her voyage constitutes a lack of due diligence on the part of her owner to make her seaworthy, or is merely an error of navigation on the part of her master. The facts are that the motor ship Maria, a vessel engaged in the common carriage of merchandise, sailed from New Orleans on May 20, 1932, with a cargo which included 1,093 pieces of lumber for carriage to Trapani, Italy, under two bills of lading issued to Standard Export Lumber…