Legal Opinion
Sidney Blumenthal & Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line R.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 16, 1943No. 66PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This case comes up upon a judgment for the defendant in an action at law, tried to a judge without a jury. The plaintiff was the owner of a parcel o f cotton shipped from North Carolina to Connecticut, and lost in the harbor of New York on the 21st of September, 1938, while en route from Greenville to Brooklyn, upon a car float of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, an intermediate carrier. The only question is whether the loss was due to the carrier’s negligence, or to an act of God. The cotton shipped in a car of the initial carrier, reached Greenville on…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- O'Brien Bros. v. DavisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1924
- O'Brien Bros. v. Director General of RailroadsDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1922
3Cited by18 opinions
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