Aetna Insurance Company v. the Satrustegui

RUIZ-NAZARIO, District Judge.

The S. S. Satrustegui is a Spanish merchant vessel, owned, managed, operated and controlled by the respondent Compaiña Trasatlántica Española, S. A., employed by it as a common carrier of merchandise by water for hire between, amongst others, the port of Valencia, Spain, and the port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Around January 1957, one thousand cases of Spanish red peppers were delivered to said carrier, at the port of Valencia, Spain, and thereafter placed on board said vessel for transportation to San Juan, Puerto Rico, under a contract of carriage with the…