BALTIC COTTON CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 6373.

55 F.2d 568 (1932)

BALTIC COTTON CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 5, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry T. Smith & Caffey, of Mobile, Ala., for appellant.

Alexander C. Birch, U. S. Atty., and Wm. B. Inge, both of Mobile, Ala., for the United States.

Before BRYAN, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Baltic Cotton Company brought a libel under 46 USCA § 742, against the United States as owner and operator of the steamship Hastings, for that the ship had falsely stated in its bill of lading for three hundred bales of cotton shipped from Mobile by Weil Brothers to themselves at Copenhagen with order to notify Baltic Cotton Company, that the cotton was in apparent good order and condition, knowing...

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