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ROBERT C. HERD & COMPANY v. KRAWILL MACHINERY CORP.

No. 7620.

256 F.2d 946 (1958)

ROBERT C. HERD & COMPANY, Inc., a Maryland Corporation, Appellant and Cross-Appellee, v. KRAWILL MACHINERY CORPORATION, Kraus Manufacturing Corporation and Engineering Industries International, S. A., Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided June 16, 1958.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Coughlan, Jr., and George W. P. Whip, Baltimore, Md. (Lord, Whip & Coughlan, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant and cross-appellee.

William A. Grimes, Baltimore, Md. (Ober, Williams, Grimes & Stinson, Baltimore, Md., Fildew, DeGree, Fleming & Gilbride, and Leslie W. Fleming, Detroit, Mich., on brief), for appellees and cross-appellants.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.

A stevedoring company was held liable in a civil suit in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland in the sum of $47,992.04, the full amount of resulting damage when a crated press fell into the Baltimore Harbor. The defendant's appeal challenges the amount of the judgment awarded. It claims the benefit of the limitation provisions of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (popularly called "Cogsa"), 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 1300...

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