Legal Opinion
The S. S. Nea Hellis
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 13, 1941No. 110PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a libel in rem against the steamship Nea Hellis to collect a penalty for violation of a federal statute. The libel states that it is brought for a breach of the provisions of the Oil Pollution Act of 1924, 33 U.S.C.A. § 433. It alleges that on September 26, 1939, there was discharged and deposited from the said vessel into the coastal waters of the United States, to-wit, within the Harbor of the City of New York, a large quantity of oil; it asks a decree for a penalty of not less than $500 nor more than $2,500. Exceptions were filed on the ground that the facts…
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