Herschel Jones Marketing Service, Inc. v. United States

HAZEL, District Judge.

It is proVfen herein that 180 barrels of apples were transported from Martinsburg, W. Va., to New York in railroad ear P. P. E. No. 16081, and it appears by the letter in evidence, written by J. G. Maples, that the barrels were marked “H. P. Thom, Martinsburg, W. Va.”; that, on arrival of the shipment at New York, it was transferred to the respondent steamship Argosy, where the barrels were counted and cheeked and their destination to Allborg, via Copenhagen, noted, followed by delivery to the shipper’s agent of a dock receipt which bore the mark “S. & K.,” while the…