District Court, E.D. South Carolina June 26, 1951, Nos. 1050, 1051 (W. R. Grace & Co. v. Charleston Lighterage & Transfer Co.)

WARING, Chief Judge.

On the morning of October 22, 1949, the Steamship Santa Isabel arrived, in the port of Charleston. She was laden with a cargo consisting in large part of bananas but also with a considerable number of bales of Peruvian cotton. This last named is a long staple cotton and for the sake of cargo economy the bales are very tightly compressed.