The Pharos

Brown, D. J.

This is an action in rem to recover damages for injury to 120 bales of wool, by sea-water and contact with wet redwood, in the ship Pharos, on her voyage from San Francisco to New York, in 1879. The wool in question was part of 432 bales shipped on account of the libellants, in good condition, under the ordinary bills of lading, to be delivered to the libellants in like good order and condition, perils by the sea excepted. The Pharos sailed from San Francisco on the fifteenth day of May, 1879, and arrived in New York on August 29th of that year. She carried a mixed cargo,…