Glidden Co. v. The Vermont

CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This suit was brought by the libellant, the owner of a cargo of cocoanut oil, which was, at the port of Portland Oregon, loaded on board the Steamship “Vermont”, owned) by the claimant-respondent, California Eastern Line, Inc., to recover damages alleged to have been caused to said cargo by the contamination by mineral oil while in the pert and starboard deep tanks in hold No. 3 of the said S.S. “Vermont”.

Claimant-respondent denies the damages claimed, and alleges in the alternative that if there was any damage neither it nor the S.S. “Vermont” is responsible under…