Legal Opinion
Compania De Navegacion Transmar, S. A. v. Georgia Hardwood Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 5, 1944No. 10796PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge..
The suit by libel in personam was, for $9,304 freight money on pine timbers weighing 531,656 pounds or 265.82 tons, at $35 per ton, from Jacksonville, Florida, to Alexandria, Egypt. The claim was that libellant and respondent had agreed that libellant should carry “750,000 board feet of pine timbers, not exceeding four pounds per board foot, at $70.00 per 1000 feet”, or $35 per short ton; that instead of 4 pounds, the timbers .libellant had carried had averaged 4.75 per pounds per board foot; the shipment as a whole had weighed 531,656 pounds in , excess of the…
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