Associated Metals & Minerals Corp. v. De Larrinaga

Plaintiff-shipper appeals the judgment for defendant-carrier in its suit for dam*101ages to a shipment of wire rods. Plaintiff asserts that the District Court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law are clearly erroneous — without adequate evidentiary support and “partially induced by an erroneous view of the law.” There is ample evidence in the record to support the lower court’s factual findings and legal conclusions. We affirm.

Plaintiff shipped a cargo of “open hearth wire rods” from Antwerp, Belgium to Jacksonville, Florida, aboard a vessel chartered by defendant. Two months after defendant…