MR. JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The District Court held, although the condition of the weather might account for the shifting of the baggage, that result could also have arisen from its bad stowage, and in the absence of all proof by the ship that the baggage had been properly stowed, when such proof was peculiarly within its reach, the loss must be presumed to have arisen from the imperfect stowage. The...
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