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MONICA TEXTILE CORP. v. S.S. TANA

No. 88 Civ. 5127 (LBS).

765 F.Supp. 1194 (1991)

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.

June 4, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McDonald, Herbermann & Fenzel, New York City (Peter D. Fenzel, Barbara E. Frohnhofer, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Healy & Baillie, New York City (Richard V. Singleton, II, Todd P. Kenyon, of counsel), for defendants.

OPINION

SAND, District Judge.

This admiralty case concerns damages to a number of bales of cloth which were shipped from Africa to America inside a single shipping container aboard the S.S. Tana. The issue is whether it is the container or its contents which constitute the "package" for purposes of the liability limitation imposed by § 4(5) of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act ("COGSA"), 46 U.S.C. App. ...

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