Legal Opinion
Scarburgh v. Compania Sud-Americana De Vapores
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 3, 1949No. 214, Docket 21273PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by libelants from the dismissal, after trial, of a libel for cargo damage. Most of the facts were stipulated in advance so as to reduce the case to a single issue. The stipulation covered the shipment in question, consisting of 20,235 bags of Colombian coffee, from its delivery to the carrier on March 2, 1946, at Buenaventura, Colombia, to its arrival in New York, New York, on board the S.S. “Andalien,” of which respondents were operator and owner respectively. When the shipment was weighed after unloading, 97 of the bags were found to be slack, that is,…
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