The Kanawha
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Libel by Furness, Withy & Co., Limited, owner, and R. Laurence Smith, Incorporated, charterer, of the steamship Kanawha, against the steamship Camino, her cargo and freight, claimed by the Western Steam Navigation Company. From the decree, libelants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
January 14, 1915, about 4 p. m., the American steamer Camino, built of steel, bound with cargo to Rotterdam as *763a Belgian relief ship, met a violent storm, which disabled her rudder and put her entirely out of control. The port side of the forward end of her amidships house was smashed, and a strongback running fore and aft on top of the tarpaulins on each hatch, No. 1 and No. 2, was carried away, but the cargo was substantially undamaged, and the steamer was thereafter sound and water-tight, except for one or two slight leaks in the forward peak.
January 15, about noon, the…
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