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COMPANIA DE VAPORES INSCO, S.A. v. MISSOURI PACIFIC R. CO.

No. 15770.

232 F.2d 657 (1956)

COMPANIA DE VAPORES INSCO, S.A., The Baloise Marine Insurance Co., Ltd., The Chrysler Corporation, Compania Importadora de Autos y Camiones, S.A., and Compania de Autos y Transportes, S.A., Appellants, v. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Guy A. Thompson, Trustee, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific Terminal Railroad of New Orleans, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 28, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin W. Yancey, New Orleans, La., Terriberry, Young, Rault, & Carroll, Edward S. Bagley, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellants.

C. Ellis Henican, Leonard B. Levy, Kalford K. Miazza, New Orleans, La., Dufour, St. Paul, Levy & Marx, Miazza & Drury, Henican, James & Cleveland, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is taken from the district court's judgment exonerating appellees, as common carriers, from any liability for damage to 150 Chrysler Corporation automobiles, owned and insured by appellants, which had been shipped from Detroit, Michigan, to Westwego, Louisiana, and were being stored "on free time" in appellees' Westwego warehouses awaiting export by ocean carrier to Cuba on April 4, 1952...

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