MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court.
This action was brought by the defendants in error, who are aliens, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, to recover the value of one hundred and eighty-seven bales of cotton destroyed in the same fire at Westwego, Louisiana, November 12, 1894, mentioned in the immediately preceding case. As in that case, the defence here is based upon certain clauses of the bill of...
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