Mainwaring v. Bark Carrie Delap

This is a suit to recover damages for injury done to bales of empty grain bags, shipped by the libellant at Liverpool for New York, under a bill of lading which stipulated in the usual form for their delivery in good order, “the perils of the sea” excepted. The bark was put up as a general ship. Her cargo consisted of 323 tierces and 40 casks of soda ash, 300 drums of caustic soda, 265 tierces of bleaching powder, 1,850 sacks of salt, 10,000 fire-brick, 1,703 empty petroleum barrels, 840 boxes of cutch, and 110 bales of bags, of which 67 were shipped by the libellant. There was some other…