ORIENT INS. CO. v. FLOTA MERCANTE DEL ESTADO

No. 859.

102 F.Supp. 729 (1951)

ORIENT INS. CO. v. FLOTA MERCANTE DEL ESTADO. THE RIO PRIMERO.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

September 7, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for libellant.

Chaffe, McCall, Toler & Phillips, New Orleans, La., for respondent.


CHRISTENBERRY, Chief Judge.

This is a libel against Flota Mercante del Estado, a department of the government of Argentina, which operates the merchant fleet of the Republic of Argentina. The libel is brought by Orient Insurance Company, a subrogee of the rights of Sidney-Ross Company, Inc., shipper of certain barrels of acetyl salicylic acid. The damage is alleged to have been sustained as a result of the breakage and wetting of some of the barrels.

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