The Isola Di Procida
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit in rem to recover damages for issuance of false bill of lading.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLT, District Judge.
This libel is filed against the steamship Isola di Procida, to recover damages for issuing a false bill of lading. In August, 1901, Solon J. Vlasto, of New York, the libelant’s *943assignor, agreed with the Banca Mobiliare Societa Anónima, a bank doing business in Fiume, Sicily, to purchase from it 800 tons of brimstone, to be shipped during September. Vlasto thereupon arranged with John Munroe & Co., of New York, for a credit with that house for the payment. The letter of credit provided that the bills under it should be drawn on Munroe & Co., of Paris, prior to October 1,…
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