Kasser Distillers Products Corp. v. Companhia De Navegacao Carregadores Acoreanos

BYERS, District Judge.

In this cause recovery is sought by the owner of 2,000 cases of brandy for loss due to breakage during ocean carriage from Oporto, Portugal, to Philadelphia, on the S. S. Goncalo Velho, in January and February of 1944.

The brandy was shipped in wooden boxes, each containing one dozen bottles laid in three layers of four each, packed in cork shavings (pieces of sliced cork) intended to prevent contact between the bottles; that is, a layer of shavings on--top and bottom of the layers, and-between each, with shavings between each bottle. n

The boxes presented no exterior…