MIAMI STRUCT. IRON CORP. v. CIE NATIONALE, ETC.

No. 15122.

224 F.2d 566 (1955)

MIAMI STRUCTURAL IRON CORPORATION, Appellant, v. CIE NATIONALE BELGE DE T.M., Claimant of THE GAND, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam I. Silver, Miami, Fla., Samuel C. Gainsburgh, New Orleans, La., Pallot, Silver & Mulloy, Bernard S. Mandler, Miami, Fla., of counsel, for appellant.

Henry Burnett, Fowler, White, Gillen, Yancey & Humkey, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before TUTTLE, Circuit Judge, and DAWKINS and SIMPSON, District Judges.


SIMPSON, District Judge.

The appellant (libelant below), as owner by assignment of 215 lift bundles of steel reinforcing bars, filed its libel in rem against the S.S. Gand, a common carrier of merchandise by water for hire, alleging shipment of the goods in good order and condition from Antwerp, Belgium on January 15, 1952 and discharge of the goods by the vessel at Port Everglades, Florida in seriously damaged condition on or about February 6, 1952, in violation...

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