Connecticut Fire Ins. v. Lake Transfer Corp.

GALSTON, District Judge.

The respondents filed exceptions to the commissioner’s report which awarded the libelant damages of $3,219.98, with interest from February 28, 1931.

The pivotal question involved is the measure of damages.

As appears from the interlocutory decree (D. C.) 60 F.(2d) 172, the libel was brought by the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, as assignee of the Seaboard Great Lakes Corporation. This latter corporation was the carrier. The Niagara Sprayer & Chemical Company, the consignee of .a certain shipment of sulphur, refused to accept a barge load forming part of the…