COLUMBUS COMPANY v. SHORE

No. 18063.

276 F.2d 93 (1960)

COLUMBUS COMPANY, Ltd., Claimant of THE M/V SONIA II, Appellant, v. David SHORE, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 24, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard B. Adams, Brown, Dean, Adams & Fischer, Miami, Fla., for appellant.

Cromwell A. Anderson, Miami, Fla., Smathers, Thompson & Dyer, Miami, Fla., for appellee.

Before HUTCHESON, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty entered on findings of fact and conclusions of law in favor of libelant for damage to a cargo of bananas. These are the facts, stated, as they must be, most favorably for appellee and as they were in substance found by the court:

Respondent's agent, Carl Sawyer, entered into an oral charter of the "Sonia II" with libelant for the transportation of a cargo of bananas which libelant was purchasing...

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