Koninklijke Nedlloyd BV v. Uniroyal, Inc.

FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS

BRIEANT, District Judge.

By its complaint filed July 30,1975, plaintiff Koninklijke Nedlloyd (“Nedlloyd”), an ocean carrier, seeks to recover $2,350.15 in freight charges for the transportation of four shipments of cargo owned by the defendant, Uniroyal, Inc. (“Uniroyal”) from New York to various ports in the Persian Gulf. Uniroyal asserts that it paid all sums now claimed by plaintiff to Eastern Cargo Forwarders, Inc. (“Eastern”), an ocean freight forwarder, and that Eastern failed to remit these sums to the plaintiff. Eastern is presently in bankruptcy, and the…