Isbrandtsen Co. v. Lyncroft Grain Corp.

This' is an action instituted by Isbrandtsen Co., Inc., against Lyncroft Grain Corporation to recover alleged damages sustained by reason of the defendant’s failure to deliver 1,500 tons of grain to be shipped on the plaintiff’s vessel “ M. V. Heelsum,” pursuant to a freight engagement contract dated January 8, 1952. Lyncroft denies that it breached the contract and contends that it was the plaintiff which breached it. Lyncroft has interposed a counterclaim for its alleged damages and by a third-party complaint, it has brought into this action as a third-party defendant, Mack Klosty &…