Lake City Stevedores, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross v. East West Shipping Agencies, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

In this case a stevedoring company seeks to recover from a subagent of a ship-charterer the value of services rendered to the ship. The district court held that although the defendant acted as an agent for a disclosed principal it bound itself for fifty percent of the stevedoring charges. We reverse on this issue.

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The plaintiff-appellee in this case, Lake City Stevedores, Inc. is engaged in the business of providing stevedoring services and acting as agent for ships in Lake Charles, Louisiana. The defend- ' ant-appellant, East West Shipping Agencies, Inc., is a New York…