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WILLIAMS S. S. CO., INC. v. WILBUR

No. 4675.

9 F.2d 622 (1925)

WILLIAMS S. S. CO., Inc., v. WILBUR et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

December 14, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thacher & Wright, of San Francisco, Cal. (Thomas A. Thacher, Harrison A. Jones, and W. Kevin Casey, all of San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for appellant.

Harold M. Sawyer and Alfred T. Cluff, both of San Francisco, Cal. (Daniel W. Evans, of San Francisco, Cal., of counsel), for appellees.

Before HUNT, RUDKIN, and McCAMANT, Circuit Judges.

RUDKIN, Circuit Judge.

This was a libel to recover damages to a cargo of fish meal shipped on board the steamer Willsolo from Baltimore, Md., to Portland, Or. The meal heated in the course of the voyage, and when the hatches were thrown open at San Francisco fire broke out in the hold where the cargo was stored, through spontaneous combustion. As a result of the heating and fire the cargo was damaged and partially destroyed.

After a part of the testimony had...

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