Legal Opinion
Jsg Trading Corp. v. Tray-Wrap, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 26, 1990No. 982, Docket 89-9032PublishedCited by 252 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
Underlying this litigation is an alleged delay in a shipment of $24,000 worth of tomatoes. Delay is serious in the tomato business because what is today a marketable commodity becomes tomorrow spoiled and unmarketable garbage. In common parlance tomatoes are vegetables, as the Supreme Court observed long ago, see Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304, 307, 13 S.Ct. 881, 882, 37 L.Ed. 745 (1893), although botanically speaking they are actually a fruit. 26 Encyclopedia Americana 832 (Int’I. ed. 1981). Regardless of classification, people have been enjoying tomatoes for centuries,…
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