GOODMAN, District Judge.
The main issue in this cause is whether the jettisoning of libelants' shipments of lumber was caused by "peril of the sea" or by the unseaworthiness of respondent's vessel. If the former was the cause, libelants must lose; whereas they succeed in their libel if the latter was the cause.
The evidence shows that the Cynthia, while en route in coastal waters from Oregon to San Pedro, California, took a sudden list of approximately 35...
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