United States Willow Furniture Co. v. La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Libel in admiralty by the United States Willow Furniture Company against La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Decree for libelant, and respondent appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Libel in admiralty by the United States Willow Furniture Company against La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. Decree for libelant, and respondent appeals. Libelant (hereinafter called Willow Company) was the ultimate consignee and actual owner of four consignments of bundles of willow shipped from Bordeaux to New Fork on steamers under charter to respondent and under the respondent’s bills of lading. The willow was delivered so injured by water that two of the consignments were entirely wet, and of…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). In the view taken of the eleventh article of respondent’s bill of lading the court below followed Kuhnhold v. Compagnie Genérale, supra, and we agree that that case was properly decided, at least in so far as it affects the present litigation. The questions now in controversy did not, however, arise in the litigation referred to.
[1] As to the contention, that the trial judge erred in not sending the case to a commissioner for any purpose, we overrule it. The'commissioner is an officer of the court, whose services may be availed of or dispensed with at the…
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