The Koan Maru
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Dibel by Mark & Rawolle, Incorporated, against the steamship Koan Maru.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, District Judge.
Eibelant was the owner of 2,720 packages or bags of shellac delivered to the Koan Maru at Calcutta in December, 1916. When the vessel discharged her cargo at New York ■on March 12, 1917, it was found that 737 bags and their contents had 'been blackened and damaged. This condition libelant attributes to negligent stowage, which, if shown, would concededly make the ship liable. Claimant contends: (1) That there was no negligence; (2) that, if there was, it was a fault in management; and (3) in any event liability is limited by the limited liability clause of the bills of…
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