The Presque Isle
District Court, W.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit in rem to recover for damage to cargo.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
On July 16, 1903, Chase & Sanborn, of Chicago, 111., consignees of a cargo of coffee which had arrived at the port of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the steamer Syracuse, being desirous of shipping the same via Erie Canal to Chicago, through their forwarding agents engaged the libelant, Western States Line, a corporation, to convey the cargo in question. The libelant, owning no canal boats, thereupon chartered the Presque Isle, owned "by the Erie Dock & Transportation Company, to carry the merchandise to Buffalo, where it was tó be transhipped to the steamer Wissahickon for the…
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