W. R. GRACE & CO. v. CHARLESTON LIGHTERAGE & TRANSFER CO.

Nos. 1050, 1051.

98 F.Supp. 256 (1951)

W. R. GRACE & CO. v. CHARLESTON LIGHTERAGE & TRANSFER CO. et al. WEIL et al. v. CHARLESTON LIGHTERAGE & TRANSFER CO. et al.

United States District Court, E. D. South Carolina. Charleston D.

June 26, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Waring & Brockinton, Charleston, Atkins & Weymar, New York City, for petitioner.

Mitchell & Horlbeck, Hagood, Rivers & Young, all of Charleston, for respondent.


WARING, Chief Judge.

On the morning of October 22, 1949, the Steamship Santa Isabel arrived in the port of Charleston. She was laden with a cargo consisting in large part of bananas but also with a considerable number of bales of Peruvian cotton. This last named is a long staple cotton and for the sake of cargo economy the bales are very tightly compressed. A quantity of this cotton cargo was consigned to and owned by the...

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