Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Jeremiah Neterer, Judge.

Suit in admiralty by W. R. Grace & Co., a corporation, against Frank Waterhouse & Co., Incorporated. From a decree dismissing the libel, the libelant appeals.

The appellant appeals from a decree dismissing its libel in personam to recover damages for injury to merchandise caused by delay in the transportation thereof by the appellee from Hong Kong to San Francisco. The' bills of lading acknowledged receipt of the goods “consigned and destined as indicated below for carriage from Hong Kong by steamship Kaifuku Maru. * * * To be carried by said steamer * * * to the port of San Francisco, * * * with liberty to proceed to stay at any port or ports in accordance with condition II on the back hereof, and to be there delivered at the vessel’s tackles unto order or to his or their assigns (notify Messrs. W. R. Grace & Co.), or at vessel’s tackles to another carrier on the route to destination, if consigned beyond a port of call, and by said connecting carrier, to be transported * * * unto the port of San Francisco.”

Condition.il on the back of the bill of lading provides: “The steamers of this line are general traders carrying cargo between western United States ports and places to Chinese * * * and other Far Eastern ports and places, and vice versa, and to and from ports or places within the limits of the said termini, and they have liberty before or after proceeding towards to port of desünation mentioned herein to proceed to and stay at any ports or places within their said trading area in any order or rotation backwards and/or forwards, and notwithstanding that snch ports may be ont of or away from the route to or in a contrary direction to that of the port of discharge, it being agreed that all the before indicated ports or places are within the contemplated voyage, and that proceeding to or staying at or calling there shall under no circumstances be deemed a deviation. * * * On delivery from the ship’s tackles the ship’s responsibility shall cease. The goods may he transshipped at any port or ports, and for the purpose of transshipment may be jput Into or stored in hulk or craft or landed.”

The merchandise was carried by tiie steamship from Hong Kong to Seattle, and was there discharged and placed in a warehouse. It was delayed there two months by a stevedores’ strike, and when forwarded by the appellee to destination at San Francisco was found damaged as the result of the delay in Seattle in an amount stipulated to he >;990.77.