HF Staiger Co. v. PT Trikora Lloyd

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MacKENZIE, Senior District Judge.

Plaintiff, H.F. Staiger Company (“Staiger”) filed this action in admiralty on June 12, 1987, alleging damage in the amount of $30,003.33 to a cargo of crude rubber shipped from Indonesia aboard the M/V TRAUTENBELS, a ship chartered by the defendant, P.T. Trikora Lloyd (“Trikora”). Trial was held before this Court on January 7, 1988.

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Staiger, a New York corporation engaged in the business of buying and selling imported crude rubber, was the purchaser of some 555 pallets of crude rubber from Trikora, an Indonesian corporation engaged in the…