Ideal Leather Goods Co. v. Eastern Steamship Corp.

This is an action of contract or tort, brought in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston by the Ideal Leather Goods Company, a Massachusetts corporation, against the Eastern Steamship Corporation, a Maine corporation and a common carrier by water.

The plaintiff’s declaration consists of three counts. The first count may be disregarded, as the trial judge ruled as a matter óf law that the evidence was insufficient to sustain it, and because the plaintiff in its brief states that it was waived.

The second count alleges a contract under date of July 9, 1912, to transport a case of frames to New…