S.  148,  37  Sup.  Ct.  43.  61  L.  Ed.  — ,
filed  December  4,  1916.  Where  prop-
erty is  destroyed  by  an  act  of  God,
but  would  not  have  been  within  the
range  of  the  destructive  force  except
for  the  negligent  delay  of  the  car-
rier, is  established  as  the  rule  accept-
ed and  enforced  in  the  federal  cotuts
that  the  act  of  God,  not  the  negligent
delay  of  the  carrier,  is  the  proxi-
mate couse  of  the  loss,  and  that  the
negligent  delay  of  the  carrier  is  too
remote  as  a  contributing  cause  to
entail  liability  upon  him.  Clark  v.
Barnwell.  12  How.  (53  U.  S.  272,  13
L.  Ed.  985;  Memphis  Ry.  Co.  v.
Reeves,  10  Wall.  (77  U.  S.)  176^  19
L.  Ed.  909;  Western  Transporta-
tion Co.  V.  Downer,  U  Wall.  (78
U.  S.)  129,  20  L.  Ed.  160;  St  Louis,
I.  M.  &  S.  Ry.  Co.  V.  Commercial
Union  Ins.  Co.,  139  U.  S.  223,  11
Sup.  Ct.  554,  35  L.  Ed.  154;  Thomas
V.  Lancaster  Mills,  71  Fed.  481,  19
C.  C.  A.  88;  Cau  v.  Texas  &  P.  Ry.
346


THE  LAW  OF  LOSS  AND  DAMAGE  CLAIMS


Co.,  194  U.  S.  427,  24  Sup.  Ct.  663,
48  L.  Ed.  1053;  New  Orleans  &  N.
E.  Ry.  Co.  V.  National  Rice  Mill
Co.,  234  U.  S.  80,  34  Sup.  Ct.  726,
58  L.  Ed.  1223;  Seaboard  Air  Line
V.  Mullin  (Fla.)  70  South.  467.
