Camden Woolen Co. v. Eastern S. S. Lines, Inc.

HALE, District Judge.

This is an action at law to recover for the loss of certain shipments of goods, made hy the plaintiff over the lines of the defendant company, by a fire on its terminal at Camden, Me. The plaintiff is a corporation, manufacturing woolen goods at Camden, Me. The defendant is a common carrier by water, operating a fleet of passenger and freight steamers between the ports of New York and Boston, Portland, Rockland, Camden, Bangor and other ports, at all which ports it owns or controls terminal facilities.

On the morning of August 2, 1924, its terminal at Camden, Me., caught…