Compania Generale de Tobacos de Filipinas v. Kokusai Kisen Kabushiki Kaisha

KNOX, District Judge.

Libelants in the above-entitled suits ask damages from respondent upon account of injuries suffered by several shipments of centrifugal sugar tha.t were transported from Manila, Nasugbu, and Bais, respectively, in the Philippine Islands, to Philadelphia and Savannah, upon board the steamship Glasgow Maru. While some of the shipments had different origins, their condition upon outturn at destination was much the sanie. This circumstance, coupled with the fact that all the sugar was carried by the same ship, made it expedient to consolidate the actions and try them as one.

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