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THE G.R. BOOTH

No. 10.

171 U.S. 450 (1898)

THE G.R. BOOTH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 17, 1898.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harrington Putnam for appellant

Mr. J. Parker Kirlin for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE GRAY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a libel against the steamship G.R. Booth, for damage done to sugar, part of her cargo, under the following circumstances: Another part of the cargo consisted of twenty cases of detonators, being copper caps packed with fulminate of mercury for exploding dynamite or gun-cotton. While she was being unladen at the dock in her port of destination, one of the cases of detonators exploded, purely by accident...

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