Cabot Corp. v. Mormacscan

EDELSTEIN, District Judge.

OPINION

This is an action by Cabot Corporation and Cabot Argentina, S.A.I.C., foreign corporations (hereinafter Cabot) against the John W. McGrath Corporation,1 a domestic corporation (hereinafter Mc-Grath), stevedores, for damage to its cargo brought about by the negligence of the defendant-stevedore in dropping cargo belonging to another shipper on the previously stored cargo of the plaintiff.

Defendant, John W. McGrath Corp., concedes that while performing stevedoring operations on behalf of Moore-McCormack Lines, its stevedores negligent*1172ly permitted two heavy steel…