PATTERSON, District Judge.
Suit is brought to recover for cargo damage. The libelant is the indorsee and holder of bills of lading covering a shipment of skins. The respondent, which issued the bills, operates a line of steamships between Brazil and New York. By the bills in question it undertook to carry the skins on the steamer Swinburne from Ceara, a port in Northern Brazil, to New York. The skins were damaged by water while on a lighter in transit from the shore...
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