Legal Opinion
The Seneca
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 7, 1908Published
In Admiralty. Suit for short delivery of cargo.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge.
This action was brought by Henry W. Peabody & Company against the steamship Seneca to recover the value of a claimed short delivery of bristles shipped by Ilbert & Company at Shanghai on the 15th day of September, 1905. The shipment was of 50 cases of bristles, deliverable to order in New York. The bill of lading was assigned by the shippers to the libellants, who claimed the goods upon arrival of the vessel, but it is alleged that they did not come in the same good order and condition as when shipped, a number of the cases having been tampered with and the contents…
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