The Newport News
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Sea Insurance Company and others against the steamship Newport News for injury to cargo. On final hearing. Decree for claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
On a voyage from New York to Buenos Ayres, beginning on February 7th, the Newport News carried in one of her holds a considerable quantity of manufactured iron and wire. This cargo was on the bottom, and on arrival at destination was found badly rusted, while both cargo and ship’s sides showed traces of water rising, it is said, as high as six feet above the bottom.
On this voyage there was deck cargo of between 500 and 600 barrels of rosin, immediately above the hold containing the injured iron. It is admitted that during the voyage the caps or plugs of the sounding…
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