HUTCHESON, District Judge.
This is a suit for loss of cargo of lumber stowed on deck, as the result of being lost overboard and/or jettisoned in a storm.
The shipment being upon a clean bill of lading, it is conceded that stowage on deck amounts to a deviation (see The Delaware, 14 Wall. [81 U. S.] 579, 20 L. Ed. 779; The St. Johns N. F. [C. C. A.] 280 F. 553; see, also, same case in Supreme Court,
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