TOYOMENKA, INC. v. S.S. TOSAHARU MARU

Nos. 627, 718, 1347 and 1348, Dockets 74-2297, 74-2325, 74-2365 and 74-2377.

523 F.2d 518 (1975)

TOYOMENKA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. S.S. TOSAHARU MARU, her engines, boilers, etc. YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON STEAMSHIP CO., LTD., d/b/a Y. S. Line, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Cross-Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL OPERATING CO., INC., and McRoberts Protective Agency, Inc., Third-Party Defendants and Cross-Appellants. MARUBENI-IIDA (AMERICA), INC. and Murilspun, Ltd., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. S.S. TOSAHARU MARU, her engines, boilers, etc. YAMASHITA-SHINNIHON KISEN K.K. et al., Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs-Cross-Appellants, v. INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL OPERATING CO., INC., and McRoberts Protective Agency, Inc., Third-Party Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided August 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin B. Mulroy, New York City (Leo A. Cappelletti, and Hill, Rivkins, Carey, Loesberg & O'Brien, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellants Marubeni-Iida (America), Inc. and Murilspun, Ltd.

Carmen A. Russo, and Vincent, Berg & Russo, New York City, for plaintiff-appellant Toyomenka, Inc.

Joseph D. Ahearn, New York City (J. Robert Morris, New York City, on the brief), for third-party defendant-appellee McRoberts Protective Agency, Inc.

Before FEINBERG, TIMBERS and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges.


TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:

The contract provision to be construed on this appeal is no stranger to this Court. It is the $500 per package limitation of liability clause in an ocean carrier's bills of lading.

The issue arises this time on appeals by shippers from a judgment for cargo damage in their favor entered September 3, 1974 in the Southern District of New York, Kevin T. Duffy, District Judge, to the extent the judgment limited the shippers' recovery...

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