Compania De Vapores Insco, S.A. v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from the district court’s judgment exonerating appellees, as common carriers, from any liability for damage to 150 Chrysler Corporation *658automobiles, owned and insured by appellants, which had been shipped from Detroit, Michigan, to Westwego, Louisiana, and were being stored “on free time” in appellees’ Westwego warehouses awaiting export by ocean carrier to Cuba on April 4, 1952, when a severe windstorm struck the area, causing very extensive damage to the warehouses and the cars stored within.

The ultimate factual issue of whether the damage to the…