FOSTER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant filed a libel against the United States and the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company to recover $1,765 for damages to a shipment of 1,000 cases of peeled tomatoes from Palermo, Italy, to New Orleans, by the steamship Scantic, and from that port to Chicago by the railroad, alleged to have been caused by sea water on the ocean voyage. The railroad company filed an exception challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the claim...
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