Levatino v. General Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., of Greece

HERLANDS, District Judge.

This is an action by a firm of chestnut importers against the owners of the Olympia.1 Plaintiffs seek to recoup from defendant the damages that plaintiffs say they suffered when the wholesale market price of imported chestnuts dropped 40 per cent shortly after October 6, 1955.

The springboard for plaintiff’s claim is the undisputed fact that all of plaintiffs’ *7572,020 cases of chestnuts were not unloaded from the Olympia on October 5, 1955, the same day that the Olympia arrived in New York.

On Wednesday, October 5 th, the Olympia, arriving on schedule, docked at North…