New York Cent. R. v. Lazarus
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Action by Samuel O'. Tazaras and others, copartners doing business under the firm name and style of Lewis Lazarus & Sons, against the New York Central Railroad Company to recover the value of freight lost while in the possession of defendant. Judgment for the plaintiffs (271 Fed. 93), and the defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
Pn May 12, 1917, at Singapore, China, there was delivered to the Seattle Vladivostock Steamship Riñe, 994 slabs of tin to be carried to Seattle, Wash., by the steamship Rouise Nielson, and then by rail to New York. The tin was consigned to the deiendants in error. Eventually the tin was delivered to the defendants in error, all except 1S3 slabs, which were lost by theft while in its possession. Below the defendants in error have recovered a judgment for the value of these stolen slabs of tin. It was an interstate shipment, and therefore subject to the rules and…
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