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BELT'S WHARF v. INTERNAT. CORP.

[No. 206, October Term, 1956.]

213 Md. 585 (1957)

132 A.2d 588

BELT'S WHARF WAREHOUSES, INC. v. INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTS CORPORATION ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 7, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Fisher, Jr., with whom were Rignal W. Baldwin and Semmes, Bowen & Semmes on the brief, for appellant.

Philip O. Roach, with whom was Benjamin Lipsitz on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ., and KINTNER, J., Associate Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

A corporate warehouseman appeals from a judgment on the verdict of a jury for damage to goods stored in its charge caused by the high tide that came above the floor of its pier warehouse when hurricane "Connie" struck Baltimore in August of 1955.

Code, 1951, Art. 14A, Sec. 21, declares the common law in the following language: "A warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the goods caused by his...

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