Doherr v. Houston
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from a decree of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in favor of libelant for $351.60 damages and costs, by reason of breakage of certain packages of firecrackers shipped by libelant on respondents’ steamer Flilarius at New York, and delivered at Buenos Ayres.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The shipment in question comprised 300 packages of firecrackers, each package containing 8 wooden boxes, each wooden box holding 40 packs of • firecrackers. The boxes were made of .quarter-inch lumber, nailed together, and each box was covered with oiled paper. The 8 boxes, covered with matting and bound together with rattan, constituted a package weighing about 50 pounds., There were other packages of firecrackers on board, belonging to other shippers. Upon arrival at destination a considerable number'of libel-ant’s packages were found to be broken, and their contents…
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