Simpson v. Washington

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “we are compelled to review the district court’s findings of fact, including its finding as to causation, under the clearly erroneous standard of Fed. R. Civ. P. 52(a)”
• finding a shipper not liable under § 4(6) for damages caused by the heating of a coal cargo at sea where the shipper had disclosed prior to shipment that the cargo was coal and the ship’s master “admitted that he was aware that coal might spontaneously combust”

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