Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd. v. Inland Waterways Corp.

BORAH, District Judge.

This is an action for damages alleged to have resulted to plaintiff from the negligence of defendant in causing a shipment of castor oil to be cleared through the Customs by the payment of duty. The essential facts which give fise to this litigation have in the main been stipulated and are in substance as follows:

In June, 1942, there was shipped from Pernambuco, Brazil, via the S. S. Rio Bran-co, 404 drums of .castor oil, for the account of Wm. M. Phelan & Company, Montreal, Canada, consignee and owner, and on July 18, 1942, this shipment arrived at New Orleans with…