American Mills Co. v. Luckenbach S. S. Co.

BURNS, District Judge.

Libelant, the American Mills Company, alleges an agreement with respondent, Luckenbaeh Steamship Company, which is in the business of shipping goods for hire as a common carrier by water, whereby respondent agreed to ship 2,582 cots from New Orleans to Seattle, Wash. On September 15, 1922, 1,402 of these cots had been stowed aboard the steamship Florence Luckenbaeh, which was docked at the Army Supply Base Wharf, when the wharf took fire and was consumed, along with 1,450 cots remaining to be stored aboard the ship. The libel is in personam, and prays for $1,087.50,…