Austin Nichols & Co. v. Compania Trasatlantica

Plaintiff obtained a judgment, in this case against the defendant in a suit for the damage to a consignment of forty puncheons containing olive oil, which were put aboard defendant’s steamship C. Lopes y Lopes at Malaga, Spain, in July, 1917, for transportation to New York. The claim of loss is founded upon *661the assertion of plaintiff that, when put aboard, the forty puncheons contained 7,193 gallons of olive oil, but that when delivered to the plaintiff at NewYork only 5,374.5 gallons of oil were in the containers. It is claimed that the forty puncheons were damaged and broken through the…