Mercantile Bank of Americas, Inc. v. Panama R.

WARD, Circuit Judge.

December 14 and 15, 1917, the Asociación de Agricultores del Ecuador shipped two consignments of cocoa “to order notify to Mercantile Bank of the Americas, Inc., at New York,” on a through bill of lading on the steamship Guatemala at Guayaquil, Ecuador, to be carried to the port of Colon, and there to be transported by a steamer of the Panama Railroad Steamship Line to the port of New York. The libelant charges that the goods were delivered at Colon to the steamer General G. W. Goethals in good order and condition, but were delivered by her at New York damaged by sea water…