The Lennox
District Court, S.D. New York
This was a libel in rem by Edgar J. Hesslein and others against tbe steamship Lennox, to recover for damage to cargo.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The above libel was filed to recover the alleged damages of $1,500 to a consignment of 500 packages of firecrackers, shipped at Hong‘Kong, in September, 1897, and delivered at New York in the following November. Each package consisted of 8 boxes of firecrackers, which were put up together and inclosed in a cover of matting. Each box contained 36 bunches of small firecrackers. The damage consisted wholly in the breakage of the boxes. The bunches of crackers within the boxes were not injured or even stained. Such articles, however, are not in merchantable condition, except…
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