Isbrandtsen Company, Inc. v. Tuteur & Company, Inc.

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether the evidence is sufficient to support the finding of the court below that appellant Isbrandtsen (respondent below), owner of the Steamship Ittersum, was liable to appellee Tuteur (libelant below) for damages to a cargo of steel transported by appellant from Antwerp, Belgium to Houston, Texas. The 360 tons of steel consigned to appellee was part of a cargo of 3,577 tons carried by the ship, and the damage claimed by appellee was confined to 17 steel beams and 45 channels alleged by appellee to have been bent or bowed. The steel…