Nieto v. the S.S. Tinnum

BICKS, District Judge.

This suit arises out of alleged damage to a cargo of 5,000 bags of garlic, while en route from Tampico, Mexico, to Havana, Cuba, aboard the S.S. Tinnum, a vessel sailing under the West German flag. Libellant is a merchant residing and doing business in Mexico; respondent is a West German corporation which at the time of the alleged incident was operating the vessel under a pool agreement with the claimant-owner, also a West German corporation. None of the parties to this litigation is a United States citizen. The shipment of garlic did not originate from nor was it…