Fireman's Ins. Co. of Newark, NJ v. Gulf Puerto Rico Lines, Inc.

MEMORANDUM ORDER

CANCIO, Chief Judge.

This cause came to be heard on defendant Gulf Puerto Rico Lines, Inc.’s Motion for Summary Judgment dated December 8, 1971 and plaintiff’s Opposition thereto dated February 15, 1972. The facts of the case, from the standpoint of this summary judgment incident, are not in dispute.

On or around the month of August 1969, specifically on August 4 of said year, the defendant, as a maritime carrier, moved the shipment the object of the present controversy, to wit, 72 cases of leather, on board the SS. “Maiden Creek”, Voyage SL 94S, from the United States to Puerto…