The Breedijk

COLEMAN, District Judge.

This is a libel in rem for loss of cargo, claimed to be due to improper stowage and handling. On April 20, 1923, the libelant’s assignor shipped 1,150 barrels .of refined sesame oil in th¿ steamship Breedijk at Rotterdam, Holland, consigned to' Baltimore. The bill of lading contained the following exceptions:

“The act of God, enemies, pirates, robbers, thieves, vermin, barratry of master and mariners, restraints of princes and rulers or people, sweating, insufficiency of package in size, strength or otherwise, drainage, leakage, breakage, pilferage, wastage, rain,…