JAMES RICHARDSON & SONS v. 158,200 BUSHELS, ETC., WHEAT

No. 419.

90 F.2d 607 (1937)

JAMES RICHARDSON & SONS, Limited, et al., v. 158,200 BUSHELS OF NO. 1 NORTHERN MANITOBA WHEAT et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 7, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otto, Easterday & Warburton, of New York City (Henry E. Otto, and Samuel C. Otto, of New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Foley & Martin, of New York City (Christopher E. Heckman, and James A. Martin, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before MANTON, SWAN, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The libelants are owners, as their interests may appear, of cargoes of wheat transported from Buffalo to New York on six canal barges under a contract of affreightment between James Richardson & Sons, Limited (for convenience hereafter referred to as Richardson) and W. E. Hedger Transportation Corporation (hereafter referred to as Hedger). Hedger having threatened to sell the wheat for freight charges, the libelants filed a possessory libel...

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