The Tuladi

BURNS, District Judge.

Libelant seeks damages, for loss occasioned by a decline in the market value of coffee during a delay in' *628shipment, against the American steamship Tuladi and the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, as owner, under a contract of affreightment, dated May 31, 1920, by which the Mississippi Shipping Company, Incorporated, an operating agent of the said owner, acknowledged the receipt of 2,000 bags of coffee in bills of lading issued therefor, stipulating shipment from Victoria, Brazil, by the steamship Tuladi, or other steamer or steamers, to New…