Alliance Tobacco Co. v. United States

GODDARD, District Judge.

This is a suit to recover for water damage to a shipment of 103 bales of leaf tobacco carried on the steamship West Eldara operated by the respondent on a voyage from Antwerp sailing from there on January 12, 1928, and arriving at Hoboken on February 2, 1928. The libel alleges the delivery at Antwerp of the bales of tobacco in good order and condition and their out-turn at New York City damaged as a result of wetting. The answer, aside from admitting merely formal allegations contained in the libel, denies the rest of them and sets up as a separate defense perils of…