Avrutin v. Hensel
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from judgment of the Fourth District Court, rendered in favor of the defendants upon their counterclaim. Action for the recovery of specific goods received by the defend-. ants as forwarding agents, or for their value, Counterclaim for freight charges incurred.
1Opinion of the CourtBischoff, J.
The goods in suit were shipped .by a certain party from a city' in Russia, consigned to one Hirschmann and' to be delivered in the city of Hew York,- a Russian transportation *161company taking the goods under contract for shipment and delivering the shipper a bill of lading which expressed the terms of a contract of carriage whereby the equivalent of $13 was to be paid upon arrival in Hew York, but to whom this payment was to be made does not appear.
One Frank, who had some interest in the goods, thereafter received a letter from a Hamburg concern naming these defendants as receivers of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Woodruff v. . HavemeyerNew York Court of Appeals · 1887
- Romaine v. BrewsterNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1894