STANDARD BRANDS v. EASTERN S. S. LINES

No. 323.

97 F.2d 918 (1938)

STANDARD BRANDS, Inc., v. EASTERN S. S. LINES, Inc.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 20, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Appleman, of New York City, for appellant.

Haight, Griffin, Deming & Gardner, of New York City (Wharton Poor and James McKown, Jr., both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

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


CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff shipped 500 bags of green coffee from New York City on October 24, 1933, to itself as consignee in Boston, on the S. S. Acadia of the defendant. The shipment was under a uniform bill of lading which provided that the carrier should be liable for any loss or damage as at common law with certain stated exceptions of which we are now concerned with one to the effect that the carrier should be liable only as warehouseman "for loss,...

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