United Fruit Co. v. New York & Baltimore Transportation Co.

This suit was brought by the appellant, the United Fruit Company, against the appellee, the New York and Bal timore. Transportation Company, a common carrier by water, to recover the value of certain goods and merchandise shipped from New York to the appellant in Baltimore in one of the steamers of the appellee, and which after reaching the appellee’s dock in Baltimore and after being unloaded thereon from the steamer and after being stored on the appellee’s wharf were destroyed in the great fire of February, 1904. Part of the goods were shipped under bills of lading which contained…