Back

Fisher vs. Yangco Steamship [EN BANC]

F.C. FISHER, plaintiff, vs. YANGCO STEAMSHIP COMPANY, J.S. STANLEY, as Acting Collector of Customs of the Philippine Islands, IGNACIO VILLAMOR, as Attorney-General of the Philippine Islands, and W.H. BISHOP, as prosecuting attorney of the city of Manila, respondents.

G.R. No. L-8095 | 1915-03-31

EN BANC
 
 
CARSON, J.:
 
The real question involved in these proceedings is whether the refusal of the owners and officers of a steam vessel, duly licensed to engage in the coastwise trade of the Philippine Islands and engaged in that trade as a common carrier, to accept for carriage "dynamite, powder or other explosives" from any and all shippers who may offer such explosives for carriage can be held to be a lawful act without regard to any question as to the conditions under which such explosives are offered to carriage, or as to the suitableness of the vessel for the transportation of such explosives, or as to...