ST. JOHNS CORP. v. COMPANHIA GERAL, ETC.

No. 43.

263 U.S. 119 (1923)

ST. JOHNS N.F. SHIPPING CORPORATION, OWNER, & c. v. S.A. COMPANHIA GERAL COMMERCIAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 12, 1923.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Clarence Bishop Smith, with whom Mr. Henry M. Hewitt was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. E. Curtis Rouse, with whom Mr. J. Dexter Crowell was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

The General Commercial Company, Ltd., doing business as commission merchant and exporting concern at New York, in May, 1918, sold 800 barrels of rosin c.i.f. to the respondent, a Brazilian corporation, and procured a written freight reservation or agreement from the agents of the schooner St. Johns N.F. to carry the goods...

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