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W. A. LIGHTER & CO. v. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION

No. 5409.

33 F.2d 288 (1929)

W. A. LIGHTER & CO. v. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD EMERGENCY FLEET CORPORATION.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 22, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin T. Merrick, Ralph J. Schwarz, and Morris B. Redmann, all of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

Edouard F. Henriques, Sp. Asst. in admiralty to the U. S. Atty., and William I. Connelly, Atty., U. S. Shipping Board, both of New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before WALKER, BRYAN, and FOSTER, Circuit Judges.

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a libel for damages, alleged to be $22,388.46, occasioned by delay in delivery of 200 bales of cotton shipped by the steamship Newburgh, on April 30, 1920, from New Orleans to Bremen, Germany, and not delivered until the latter part of August, 1920, when the shipment was rejected by the consignee. The material facts are fully reviewed in the well-considered opinion of the District Court,

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