MONICA TEXTILE CORP. v. S.S. TANA

No. 88 CIV 5127(LBS).

731 F.Supp. 124 (1990)

MONICA TEXTILE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. S.S. TANA, her engines, boilers, etc., Barber West Africa Lines, Barber Steamship Lines, Inc., Barber Steamship Lines (N.A.) Inc., and Sekihyo Line (Panama) S.A., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

February 21, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDonald, Herbermann & Fenzel, New York City, for plaintiff; Peter D. Fenzel, of counsel.

Healy & Baillie, New York City, for defendants; Richard V. Singleton, II, of counsel.


OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

One might have thought, considering the volume of litigation concerning the subject, that all issues had been resolved relating to the question whether the $500 package limitation on liability arising under bills of lading and the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act ("COGSA") applies to a single container or to the units of goods shipped in that container. As Judge Haight observed in I.N.A. v. Texas, 1985 AMC 1358, 1361 (84...

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