Legal Opinion
The Tamba Maru
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided November 5, 1919No. 3815PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Admiralty. Suit by the Hazelwood Company against the steamship Tamba Maru; ' Nippon Yusen Kaisha, claimant.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
The libel is in rem by the assignee of the bill of lading to recover for the loss of 1,769 cases of eggs, containing 30 dozen each, and for damage to eggs in the remaining cases, in a shipment totaling 3,400. The eggs were shipped from Shanghai, Oc-*697tobcr 24, 1914, to Seattle, which port they reached November 21st of the same year. The. causes of the loss and damage, as set forth in the libel, are:
That it was “improperly stowed in the lower after hold of No. 5 hatch, on both sides of, against, over, and upon the shaft tunnel back of the boilers of said steamship, in the…
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