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HAAS v. AMERICAN EXPORT LINES

[No. 73, September Term, 1964.]

237 Md. 73 (1964)

205 A.2d 223

JOHN I. HAAS, INC. v. AMERICAN EXPORT LINES, INC., ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 7, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Skeen, Jr., with whom were William A. Skeen; Skeen, Wilson & Coughlin, and Derby, Cook, Quinby & Tweedt, on the brief, for appellant.

Robert O. Smith, Jr. for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, one of the appellees.

Harrison M. Robertson, Jr., with whom were Brune, Robertson & Iglehart on the brief, for Superintendence Co., Inc., part of appellees.

Southgate L. Morison and Ober, Williams & Grimes on the brief for American Export Lines, Inc., other appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, SYBERT and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.

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

Suit was brought below by the importer of one hundred sixty-four bales of Styrian hops it had sold to breweries against the steamship company that brought the hops to Baltimore, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., which acted both as operator of the pier at which the hops were unloaded and as the initial rail carrier, and Superintendence Co., Inc., which sampled and weighed the bales at the pier, for the value of forty...

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