STEIN v. UNITED STATES LINES COMPANY


132 F.Supp. 334 (1955)

Josef STEIN and Hugo Goitein, doing business under the firm name and style of Josef Stein, Libelants, v. UNITED STATES LINES COMPANY, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 9, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, for libelants, William F. Andersen, Pelham, N. Y., of counsel.

Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, for respondent, Alfred J. Skidmore, New York City, of counsel.


PALMIERI, District Judge.

Libelants seek to recover for soiling damage to a shipment of bales of wool tops carried on respondent's SS "American Defender," from Antwerp to Boston in August 1948. Of the 46 bales involved in the shipment, 15 were eventually sold as sound, and the remaining 31 bales are the subject matter of this action.

When the bales were delivered to respondent at the port of Antwerp, they were receipted for by respondent as in apparent good...

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