Legal Opinion
Compañia General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 4, 1931No. 362PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The libellant shipped a parcel of bagged sugar at Manila and Iloilo in the Philippines upon the respondent’s steamer, “Elkton.” Part was stowed in the steamer’s forehold, and on the outturn at Baltimore and New York was found to have been damaged by fuel oil leaking from the tank top. The sugar had been stowed over the top, and some of the oil had reached it from the rivets and the seam of the tank, but the greater part from a broken vent pipe, leading from the tank through the hold to the deck. This pipe was cased in wood and was broken a few inches above its…
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