Legal Opinion
The Frances L. Skinner
District Court, W.D. Washington
Decided November 12, 1917No. 3685PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Admiralty. Suit by Charles E. Wood against the steamship Frances L. Skinner, formerly the Sesostris; D. E. Skinner, managing owner, claimant. On exceptions to libel.
1Opinion of the Court
NETERER, District Judge.
The libel in this case alleges that:
“In October, 1912, the German steamship Sesostris, now known as the Frances L. Skinner, was lying high and dry on the coast of Guatamala, near the Mexican border, broadside to the sea, at a point about 100 feet from the high-water mark. She had been carried on shore in a heavy storm about five years theretofore, and at said time libelant, acting on his own behalf and on the behalf of the owners named, at the request of Bruno C. Hijeres, then owner of the said ship, undertook the work of floating said steamer. He conceived and…
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