GRACE v. ELLERMAN-BUCKNALL S. S. CO.

No. 3480.

14 F.2d 902 (1926)

GRACE et al. v. ELLERMAN-BUCKNALL S. S. Co., Limited.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

September 10, 1926.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard M. Long, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Kirlin, Woolsey, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City, and Rawle & Henderson, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Thomas F. Mount and Joseph W. Henderson, both of Philadelphia, Pa., John M. Woolsey, of New York City, and Francis Rawle, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellee.

Before BUFFINGTON and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

The steamship City of Edinburg, a British vessel, arrived at the port of Philadelphia in February, 1923, loaded with chrome ore and wool. The appellants, who are stevedores, unloaded the cargo, and their charge for so doing was $5,130.38. They were engaged in unloading on a bitter, cold night, and, appellee says, built a fire in hold No. 5. Some time thereafter a fire broke out in hold No. 6. This is alleged to have resulted from the fire in...

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