S. M. S. Sales Co. v. New England Motor Freight, Inc.

The plaintiffs are three foreign corporations whose goals are the distribution and sale of a line of textile goods. The manufacture of their products takes place in a mill located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. They commenced this civil action against New England Motor Freight, Inc. in December 1969. Their suit sought damages for a loss they sustained as the result of certain goods being damaged while being transported by the defendant carrier from New Jersey to Rhode Island. The carrier in its answer asserted a limitation of liability and also impleaded as a third-party defendant Emkay Chemical…