Lewis Card & Co. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

Eberhardt, Presiding Judge.

Fabrica Nacional de Alfombras, S. A., a Venezuelan corporation, brought suit against Lewis Card & Co. Inc., (now Card & Co., Inc.), Horne Heavy Hauling, Inc. (and its insurer Georgia Casualty & Surety Co. (Ga. L. 1937, pp. 727, 728; Code Ann. § 68-509)), and Georgia Ports Authority, alleging that it purchased textile machinery from Card in Chattanooga, Tennessee; that Horne, a common carrier, transported it in a pre-rigged wooden container from Chattanooga to the docks of the Ports Authority at Savannah for offloading prior to being loaded aboard a vessel for…