Maffei v. Ginocchio
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Second Branch Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. LEO J. Doyle, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Carter
Ginocchio, Costa & Co., of' Chicago, executed a contract through a New York agent, R. G. Berlingieri, with H. N. Maffei, of Naples, Italy, a dealer in nuts, for the shipment of 300 bags of No. 1 Sorrento walnuts and 300 bags of Mountain Naples walnuts. The Sorrento walnuts were shipped and received. The Mountain Naples walnuts were shipped on a later vessel, the Ancona, which was sunk by a submarine. The question here in litigation is whether the buyer or the seller should bear the loss of these last named nuts under the terms of the contract and the circumstances of the case. The cause was…
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