WATERMAN S. S. CORP. v. UNITED STATES S. R. & M. CO.

No. 11554.

155 F.2d 687 (1946)

WATERMAN S. S. CORPORATION v. UNITED STATES SMELTING, REFINING & MINING CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 18, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Stiles, Jr., of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

F. Herbert Prem, of New York City, and Louis C. Guidry, of New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, HOLMES, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


LEE, Circuit Judge.

Waterman Steamship Corporation, respondent below, prosecuted this appeal from a final decree in admiralty awarding U. S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., libellant below, damages for the loss of thirteen pieces of structural steel from a shipment of 698 pieces. Libelant, hereinafter called the shipper, delivered the steel to respondent, hereinafter called the carrier, at Baltimore, for carriage on its vessel, the "West Kyska," to the shipper...

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