Legal Opinion
The Kate
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 7, 1899PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Cargo Damage.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
The libel was died to recover for the damages to a shipment of 12,500 bales of liquorice, constituting the cargo of the steamship Kate on a voyage from Beyrout to New York from January — to March 25, 1898. Of this cargo, 4,000 bales were shipped at Beyrout, and the remaining 8,500 at Alexandretta, 280 miles distant on the Syrian coast. Soon after coaling at Malta on January 18th, a gale was met of about 12 hours’ duration, and after-wards another gale on January 20th, during which the ship took a list to port, and subsequent examination showed that the ballast tank was…
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