Southern Pac. Co. v. Agencia Joffroy, S. A.

MORGAN, Judge.

In August 1944 a New York resident importer, • one Carlisle Rountree, doing business as Export Finders Bureau, purchased a car load of Mung beans from one Carlos ' Tang of Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico. After Rountree had ascertained from the Mexican Consul in New York what the import duty would be, he sent his draft to Tang, the seller, through Banco Nacional de Mexico, S.A., Culiacan. Thereupon, Tang delivered the beans f. o. b: railway car, Culiacan; on a straight railway bill of lading of Southern Pacific Railroad Company of Mexico, a Mexican railroad corporation. The bill of…