Legal Opinion
Armour & Co. v. Fort Morgan Steamship Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 1, 1926No. 135PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis delivered the opinion of the Court.
This libel was filed on January 25, 1918, by Armour & Company against the steamship Fort Morgan in the federal District Court for eastern Louisiana. Recovery was sought for loss and damage tó a shipment of 420. head of cattle received by the ship at Port Limón, Costa Rica, for delivery at Jacksonville, Florida. The charge was that unseaworthiness had caused her to list so heavily as to compel return to port and abandonment of the voyage, and that thereby half of the cattle were killed and the rest seriously injured. The libel alleged…
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