Conklin v. Newton

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.

This action is brought to recover from the collector as an individual the sum of $32,807.22, the invoice value of certain pimentos, with interest thereon from March 26, 1919.

On February 1,1919, the firm of Roman y Masearell, of Gandia, Spain, shipped on the steamship Armuru 10,950 eases of preserved peppers to their own order at New York, receiving from the steamsMp a bill of lading signed by the master of the ship showing sMpment to the order of the shippers, Roman y Masearell., Roman, of the firm of Roman y Masearell, indorsed the bill of lading “to the order of…