W. A. Lighter & Co. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a libel fo-r damages, alleged to be $22,388.46, occasioned by delay in delivery of 200 bales of cotton slapped by the steamship Newburgh, on April 30,1920, from New Orleans to Bremen, Germany, and not delivered until the latter part of August, 1920, when the shipment was rejected by the consignee. The material facts are fully reviewed in the well-considered opinion of the District Court, 24 F.(2d) 536. It is unnecessary to refer to them, except generally, as we concur in the findings of the District Court.

The cotton was…