Stallman v. Francis A. Cundill & Co.

LEARNED HAND, District Judge.

This is an action at law tried before a jury of one on an agreed statement of facts. The complaint is for damages for failure to deliver a consignment of 30 cases of camphor to be shipped from New York to London to the plaintiff. The sale was made by broker’s usual bought and sold notes, of -yrhich the sold note recited thát there had been sold for the account of the defendant to the plaintiff in London 30 cases of Japanese camphor c. i. f. London, 18 shillings and 6 pence a pound, including war risk insurance, “shipment to be made promptly by steamer from New…