Emerald Packing Corp. v. Hygrade Food Products Corp.

The plaintiff seeks to recover the sum of $80.48, the value of 185 pounds of meat, which is the shortage in a shipment made by the defendant to the plaintiff. Plaintiff is a wholesaler of meat with a place of business in the City of New York, while the defendant is a meat packer located at Omaha, Nebraska, from which latter point the shipment in question originated. Plaintiff’s complaint refers to section 833-16.0 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York and section 193 of the Agriculture and Markets Law of the State of New York, both of which are claimed expressly to forbid…