Lange v. George D. Emery Co.

The appeEamt, Emery Company, shipped a fuE cargo of mahogany logs from Belize, British Honduras, to New York on the steamship 'Felix, in February, 1914. The vessel stranded during the voyage, and, in order to float her, it was necessary to jettison part of the deck cargo. The Felix was floated in the course of the jettison, but some damage was done to her hull and machinery. A general average was prepared by average adjusters in New York City. No aEowanee was made in this adjustment for the eargo jettisoned but an allowance was made in the court below, in favor of the shipowner, for the…