THE PRESIDENT POLK

No. 360.

43 F.2d 695 (1930)

THE PRESIDENT POLK. THE PRESIDENT ADAMS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 14, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forrest E. Single, of New York City (Robert E. Hill, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, of New York City (L. De Grove Potter, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Stein, the libelant, shipped eighty bales of goat skins on the S. S. President Polk at Shanghai for New York. The steamer stowed them in her lower hold in which were four of her fresh-water tanks. These had been nearly emptied when she reached Shanghai, and they were there drained, opened, cleaned and coated on the inside with cement, so as to be ready to receive fresh water at Hongkong, the next port...

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