The Prussia
District Court, E.D. New York
This was a libel in rem by the Insurance Company of North America against the steamship Prussia to recover for loss occasioned by deterioration of refrigerated meat while in course of transportation by said vessel.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
The question presented in this action is as follows: Competent persons were employed by her builders to place in a new ship an apparatus which, when in order, and properly operated, sufficiently reduced the temperature in a room appropriated to carrying dressed meat so that such commodity might be carried safely. Previous trials of the machinery, first by the owners, and later, on May 29, 1894, under the supervision of the representatives of the makers, builders of the ship, and of the present shipowners, successfully tested its efficiency and mechanical working, and it…
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- Townsend v. RichSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1894
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