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THE NEWPORT

No. 18057.

3 F.2d 1017 (1925)

THE NEWPORT. G. AMSINCK & CO., Inc., v. PACIFIC MAIL S. S. CO.

District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

February 4, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thacher & Wright, of San Francisco, Cal., for libelant.

McCutchen, Olney, Mannon & Greene, of San Francisco, Cal., for respondents.

PARTRIDGE, District Judge.

Libelant shipped a quantity of coffee on the steamer Newport from Cristobal to San Francisco. The evidence shows that, when the ship was loaded, and ready to sail, the third engineer received orders to turn steam into the winches, in order to handle the lines in casting off. As he was about to do so he got the stand-by bell, and in his hurry turned on a valve which admitted steam into the hold, where the coffee was stowed. This was a "smothering...

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