Frederick Leyland & Co. v. Hornblower
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Clarence Hale, Judge. Action at law by-Henry Homb lower against Frederick Leyland & Co., Limited. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings' error.
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.
In the court below the plaintiff, a citizen of Massachusetts, recovered judgment for damages to an automobile shipped by him from Liverpool, England, to Boston, Mass., on the defendant’s steamer Cestrian.
While the automobile was being raised hy a winch from the hold of the steamship at a wharf in Boston on September 30, 1909, and after it had reached the level of the deck, the clutch in the winch became disengaged, and the automobile fell between 30 and 40 feet to the bottom of the hold.
The defendant, a foreign corporation established under the laws of Great Britain, is…
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