SWIFT & CO. PACKERS v. COMPANIA COLOMBIANA DEL CARIBE

No. 12608.

175 F.2d 513 (1949)

SWIFT & CO. PACKERS et al. v. COMPANIA COLOMBIANA DEL CARIBE, S. A.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Stiles, Jr., New Orleans, La., for appellants.

Charles E. Ramirez, Ancon, Canal Zone, Nicholas J. Healy, 3d New York City, for appellee.

Before SIBLEY, McCORD, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

On March 7, 1948, Swift and Company, Packers, a Corporation of Nevada, U. S. A., joined by several corporations and citizens of Cuba and a citizen of the Republic of Columbia, brought a libel in personam in the District of the Canal Zone against Compania Transmaritima Columbiana, a corporation of the Republic of Colombia, to recover for the loss of a cargo of rice by the wrecking of the vessel Cali, owned by the respondent, off the island of...

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