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Compagnie Franco-Indochinoise Vs. Deutsch-Australische Dampschiffs Gesellschaft 039 Phil 474

COMPAGNIE FRANCO-INDOCHINOISE, plaintiff-appellant, vs. DEUTSCH-AUSTRALISCHE DAMPSCHIFFS GESELLSCHAFT, defendant-appellant.

G.R. No. 13954 | 1919-01-17

D E C I S I O N


STREET, J.:

This case has heretofore been considered upon appeal by this court; and we refer to the former decision reported in volume 15 of the Official Gazette, page 942 (36 Phil. Rep., 643), for a more complete statement of the facts than is necessary for our present purpose. The question now before the court relates to the liability of the defendant company, as owner of the steamship Esslingen, for damages resulting from the illegal detention of cargo belonging to the plaintiff embarked upon that ship at Saigon and brought to the port of Manila at the outbreak of the European War.

By the former decision of this...