Legal Opinion
Leather's Best, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. S.S. Mormaclynx, Defendants-Appellants-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 29, 1971No. 36, Docket 35562PublishedCited by 335 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRIENDLY, Chief Judge.
The facts of this case, which has already attracted considerable attention in maritime legal circles,1 are simple; the legal problems, some of them not apprehended by the parties, are difficult.
Plaintiff Leather’s Best, Inc. (“the shipper”) purchased some 11 tons of leather in 1967 from Carl Freudenberg, whose plant was at Weinheim, Germany. The seller’s employees loaded the leather into 99 cartons, averaging 4' in length, 2' in width, and 1 %' in height, and placed steel straps around them, thereby making them qualify as “bales” under the applicable tariff, which…
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