Hamburg-American Line v. Atlantic Transport Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Action at law by the Hamburg-American Dine against the Atlantic Transport Company. Judgment of compulsory nonsuit, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
The Hamburg-American Dine, a corporation of the free city of Hamburg, Germany, brought this action against the Atlantic Transport Company, a corporation of West Virginia, engaging in stevedoring, to recover $150,497.78 damages shown to have been caused by the alleged negligence of the said stevedore in unloading a cargo from the plaintiff’s freighter, Arcadia. On the trial of the cause, the court below, after hearing the plaintiff’s evidence, granted defendant’s motion for a compulsory nonsuit. On its subsequent refusal to take off the same, this writ of error was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Martin v. Atlantic Transport Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1912