The following excerpt is from Allied Intern. American Eagle Trading Corp. v. S. S. Yang Ming, 1982 AMC 820, 672 F.2d 1055 (2nd Cir. 1982):
In those cases which made use of "the possibility that ... a container might be a package," a departure from the general rule was justified by one or more of several factors: the contractual terms in the bill of lading, the lack of notice of the container's contents, and/or the absence of another unit to consider a package. For example, in Rosenbruch v. American Export Isbrandtsen
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