Kuhnhold v. Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiffs Gesellschaft
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Libel by William Kuhnhold against (lie Deutsch ■ Australische Dampfschiffs Gesellschaft and the Nether lands-American Steam Navigation Company. Libel against the Deutsch-Australische Dampfschiffs Gesellschaft dismissed,- and decree for libel-ant against the Netherlands-American Steam Navigation Company.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This very meager record raises a curious question sufficiently, I think, to dispose of it on the merits. For brevity the respondents will be called respectively the Holland Line and the German Line.
The libel is on contract, and alleges that these two companies received, April 10, 1914, at Marseilles, a shipment of 59 bales of skins in apparent good order, j ointly "agreeing to carry them on the steamer Iserlohn to Rotterdam, and thence by the steamer Soestdyk to Philadelphia; the bill of lading of the Holland Line being delivered to the libelant’s assignor, and that three…
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