...manager, agent, master, or owner of any vessel transporting merchandise or property from or between ports of the United States [Philippine Islands] and...loss or damage arising from negligence, fault, or ¿i1ure in proper loading, stowage, Custody, care, or proper delivery of any and all lawful merchandise...

...agent, master or owner of any vessel transporting merchandise from or between ports of the United States and foreign ports to insert in any bill of lading or shipping document any clause or agreement whereby any such persons shall 1)6 at liberty to impose on such merchandise any loading,...

...owner of any vessel transporting merchandise or property from or between ports of the United States and foreign ports to insert in any bill of lading...covenant or agreement whereby it. he. or they shall ho relieved from liability for loss or damage arising from negligence, fault or failure in proper loading,...

...No. 2774. 1. SHIPPING <g=141(l) — LIABILITY FOR DAMAGE TO CARGO— HABTEB ACT — CONSTRUCTION. The "negligence, fault or failure in proper loading, stowage, custody, care or proper delivery" of cargo, from liability for which, under Harter . Act Feb. 13, 1893, c. 105, | 1, 27 Stat, 445 (Comix...

...2774. 1. SHIPPING <§=141(1) — LIABILITY FOB DAMAGE TO CARGO— HAETEE ACT— CONSTRUCTION. . The "negligence, fault or failure In proper loading, stowage, custody, care or proper delivery" of cargo, from, liability for which, under Harter Act Feb. 13, 1893, c. 105, § 1, 27 Stat. 445 (Comp....

...or between ports of the United States and foreign ports, whereby the vessel owner, master, or agent shall be relieved from liability for loss or damage arising from negligence, etc., "shall be null and void and of no effect," applies to any shipment "from ports of the United...

...which case the owner would have been exempt from liability by section 3 of the Harter act, but was "loss or damage arising from negligence, fault or failure in proper loading, storage, custody, care or proper delivery of merchandise under section 1 of that act, in which case...

...questions upon which the decision of the case turns are two: First. Whether this damage to the wool was "loss or damage arising from negligence, fault, or...loading, stowage, custody, care, or proper delivery" of cargo, within the 1st section of the Harter act; or was "damage or loss resulting from faults or errors...

...sailing. On the other hand, it is to be declared unlawful for any common carrier, either by land or water, to insert in any Bill of Lading or shipping document any clause or agreement whereby the carrier shall be relieved from liability for loss or damage arising from negligence...

...delivery which is imposed by section I of the Harter act, that forbids any agreement whereby he may be relieved from liability for loss or damage arising from negligence, fault, or failure. The appellee also contends that the stipulation in the bill of lading that "the carrier shall have...