GODDARD, District Judge.
The libelant seeks to recover for damages to a shipment of 3,311 cartons of safety matches on the respondent's steamship Bird City. The shipment was delivered to the Bird City at Kotoa, Finland, on October 24, 1925, for delivery at Norfolk, Va. The shipper received clean bills of lading, and, upon the arrival of the vessel at Norfolk, many of the matches were damaged, concededly by sea water. The bills of lading provided that suit must be...
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