ROYSTON DISTRIBUTORS, INC. v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, INC.

Nos. 171 and 399 of 1960.

252 F.Supp. 480 (1965)

ROYSTON DISTRIBUTORS, INC. v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, INC. IMPERIAL CAR DISTRIBUTORS, INC. v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, INC.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

June 4, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. H. Carter and Peter Hearn, Philadelphia, Pa., for libellants, Royston and Imperial.

H. Wallace Roberts, Philadelphia, Pa., for respondent, Moore-McCormack Lines.


VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

These actions claim recovery under The Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, 46 U.S.C. § 1301ff., for damage to British-made automobiles while being transported in an uncrated condition on respondent's ships from England to Philadelphia, Pa. The following excerpts from the statement of facts in respondent's brief (Document 50) summarize the basic facts developed by the evidence at the trial:

"These admiralty cases, consolidated for...

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