The Mary F. Barrett
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Admiralty. Libel by the American Dyewood Company against the schooner Mary F. Barrett for loss of part of a cargo of logwood.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
This cause was tried on the theory that there was nothing other than a question of fact involved.
The cause of action which the libel discloses is that the libelant shipped a cargo of logwood by the schooner respondent, a portion of which only was delivered. The libelant makes claim for the value of the part undelivered. The finding is made of the loss as shown by the libelant. The loss was caused by the throwing overboard of the deckload of logwood which the schooner was carrying and about ten tons taken from the hold. This was done to lighten the vessel so as to get…
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