FRANKLIN FIRE INS. CO. v. ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO.

No. 336.

58 F.2d 175 (1932)

FRANKLIN FIRE INS. CO. v. ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

May 9, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Single & Hill, of New York City (Robert E. Hill and C. Welmore Robinson, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Slayton & Jackson, of New York City (G. Noyes Slayton, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before MANTON, L. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The libelant is an underwriter which, having paid the shipper, sues the carrier upon the bill of lading for damages to a parcel of coffee on a winter voyage from Haitian ports to Antwerp. The coffee was stowed in hold No. 1, just abaft the forepeak, and separated from it by a collision bulkhead. After touching at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands, the ship left the Caribbean on January 21st, and on the...

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