Legal Opinion
Morris v. Lamport & Holt, Ltd.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 23, 1931PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATTERSON, District Judge.
Suit is brought to recover for cargo damage. The libelant is the indorsee and holder of bills of lading covering a shipment of skins. The respondent, which issued the bills, operates a line of steamships between Brazil and New York'. By the bills in question it undertook to carry the skins on the steamer Swinburne from Ceara, a port in Northern Brazil, to New York. The skins were damaged by water while on a lighter in transit from the shore at Ceara to the Swinburne.
Ceara is an open and very shallow harbor. Ships of the draught of the Swinburne stand out a mile or…
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