District Court, E.D. Louisiana February 29, 1936, No. 18551 (The Mar Mediterraneo)

BORAH, District Judge.

This is a libel in rem by the holders of bills of lading to recover for alleged damage and loss to a cargo of 13,200 cases of sugar which was on May 31, 1920, shipped on board the steamer Mar Mediterráneo at Hamburg, Germany, for carriage to the port of New York.

The original libel was filed on SepL tember 30, 1926, more than six years after the alleged claim arose.