Atlantic Fruit Co. v. Pennsylvania Railroad

On the morning of January 24th, 1923, the Atlantic Fruit Company, hereinafter called the plaintiff, asked the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company, hereinafter called the defendant, to send a float at 1.00 P. M. that day to a steamer in New York harbor for the purpose of getting five carloads of bananas from tbe steamer and transporting them to the plaintiff’s Pratt Street pier in Baltimore City. Tbe float, with the cars on it, reached the ship’s side at 3.10 P. M. that same day, the bananas were loaded into tbe cars by 5.00 P. M., and at 5.10 P. M. tbe plaintiff notified the defendant that the…