The Alpin

These actions, tried together, are brought upon hills of lading to recover damages for the failure to deliver, in like good order, at the port of New York, cargo, in the hills of lading mentioned, shipped on hoard the steam-ship Alpin. On January 15, 1S83, the steamer above mentioned, bound for New York, left the port of Inagua, having on board a cargo of assorted merchandise, consisting in large part of coffee and hides. On the morning of January 20,1883, a few minutes after 1 o’clock, she stranded some four miles north of Green Bun inlet, on the coast of Maryland, upon a bar running along…