S. L. Shepard & Co. v. Agwilines, Inc.

WYCHE, District Judge.

This case is based upon loss suffered by the plaintiffs, who are partners, by reason of deterioration in a shipment of four thousand, two hundred and eighty-six (4,286) crates of watermelons made by the plaintiffs on one of the vessels of the defendant from Charleston, South Carolina, to New York City, on July 8, 1939. Plaintiffs allege in their amended complaint that the defendant orally represented and agreed that if the plaintiffs allowed it to transport the watermelons to the New York market, that the watermelons would be placed in pre-cooled compartments and…