Home Insurance v. M/V Amerigo Vespucci

OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT P. PATTERSON, Jr., District Judge.

Defendants Evergreen Marine Corporation and Evergreen International (U.S.A.) Corporation (together, “Evergreen”) move pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for partial summary judgment to limit their liability on the loss of ties and other goods shipped from Italy to New York in a container. Plaintiff Home Insurance Company (“Home Insurance”), a New Hampshire corporation doing business in New York sues to recover $1,223,886.00 paid to its assured, the purchaser of the ties and other goods, for the alleged loss.

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