Butler International, Inc. v. Central Air Freight, Inc.

PARKER, Judge.

Plaintiff Butler International, Inc., d/b/a MSI/Marunaka instituted this civil action to recover the sum of $18,885.50 from defendant Central Air Freight as a result of damage in transit to an OTM-2400 edgebanding machine (also referred to as an OTF-2400). At trial the evidence tended to show the following: Plaintiff sold five woodworking machines — four KCB-50s and one OTM-2400 — to American Marunaka. Since American Marunaka had only a sales office, the machines were to be shipped to Asian Pacific Distribution Corporation’s warehouse in Torrance, California. Plaintiff hired…