Legal Opinion
Decker v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided June 30, 1950No. 50-9, 50-28PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWEENEY, Chief Judge.
The actions in each case are identical since the point raised is the right of the libellants to recover under their second counts. The actions are brought in personam and the libellee is alleged to be a 'foreign corporation; hence, the Massachusetts survival statute, General Laws (Ter. Ed.), c. 228, sec. 1, is inapplicable. The actions involve the death of the libellants’ decedents on the high seas resulting from a collision between The Corinthian, on which these men were working, and The Mormacfir. Each of the actions in the first count is properly brought under the…
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- Lindgren v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1930
- International Nav. Co. v. LindstromCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1903
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