Legal Opinion
United Fruit Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 26, 1951No. 4534_1PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.
United Fruit Company, chartered owner of the S.S. Esparta, filed in the court below a libel in admiralty against the United States as bareboat charterer of the said vessel, to recover damages for the alleged failure of the United States to perform certain redelivery obligations. The district court ordered that the libel be dismissed, upon the sole ground that the asserted cause of action was barred by the terms of a release contained in a so-called “Clean Form Redelivery Certificate” executed by an official of United Fruit Company and by the War Shipping Administration…
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