Legal Opinion

Merchants' & Miners' Transp. Co. v. Seven Hundred & One Bales of Cotton

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided July 24, 1914No. 42 of 1912Published

i In Admiralty. Suit by the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation i Company against 701 bales of cotton.

1Opinion of the Court

THOMPSON, District Judge.

This is a libel for freight against 701 bales of cotton carried by the libelant from Savannah, Ga., to Philadelphia, Pa., as intermediate carrier under through bills of lading from Augusta, Ga., to Liverpool, Eng. Watson, Moody & Co. shipped from interior points in the south by rail to Savannah 856 bales of cotton under through bills of lading issued by the Southern Railway Company and the Georgia & Florida Railway Company, by which the cotton was to be carried by the Merchants’ & Miners’ Transportation Company from Savannah to Philadelphia, and there delivered to the…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Brittan v. BarnabySupreme Court of the United States · 1859
  2. Burn Line, Ltd. v. United States & A. S. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1908
  3. Mitsui v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
  4. British & Foreign Marine Ins. Co. v. Southern Pac. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1896
  5. Crossley v. FabbriDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1885

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