Smith v. Booth
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
These are separate appeals by Booth and by the Export Lighterage Company from a decree adjudging a recovery against both to the libelant for the loss of a cargo of rice by the sinking of a lighter upon which it was being transferred to the steamer Avala. The libelant sued as assignee of the owner -of the rice and of the marine underwriters who had insured it. Booth was sued as the sole surviving member of the firm of James E. Ward & Co., of New York.
The rice had arrived at the port of New York by the steamship Teutonic, whence it had been shipped at Liverpool under…
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