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Sveriges Angfartygs Assurans Forening vs. Qua Chee Gan 21 SCRA 12

SVERIGES ANGFARTYGS ASSURANS FORENING, plaintiff-appellant, vs. QUA CHEE GAN, defendant-appellee.

G.R. No. L-22146 | 1967-09-05

EN BANC

D E C I S I O N 

BENGZON, J.P., J.: 

On August 23 and 24, 1947, defendant Qua Chee Gan, a sole proprietorship, shipped on board the S.S. NAGARA, as per bills of lading Exhs. A and B 2,032,000 kilos of bulk copra at Siain, Quezon, consigned to DAL International Trading Co., in Gdynia, Poland. The vessel first called at the port of Karlshamn, Sweden, where it unloaded 696,419 kilos of bulk copra. Then, it proceeded to Gdynia where it unloaded the remaining copra shipment. The actual outturn weights in the latter port showed that only 1,569,429 kilos were discharged. 

Because of the alleged confirmed cargo shortage, the...