The La Kroma

HOLLAND, District Judge.

This libel was filed for the recovery of damage to a shipment of 2,700 bales of vegetable fiber from Oran, in Algiers, consigned to libelants at Philadelphia on the steamship La Kroma on the 24th day of January, 1903, and arrived in Philadelphia on February 23, 1903. The fiber was sold to Peter Woll, Jr., importer, of Philadelphia, on delivery weight, upon the arrival of the steamer at this port. The bill of lading under which the cargo was shipped, as translated from the Italian, is as follows:

“Oran, 24th of January, 1903.

“There has been shipped by Mr. Jules Borgeaud…