Legal Opinion
In re Poling Holding Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 15, 1954PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DIMOCK, District Judge.
This is a motion to dismiss a petition for limitation of liability or, in the al*891tentative, to modify the order restraining the further prosecution of suits against the petitioner by the administrator of the estate of Gerald McGuire and by the administrator of the estate of John E. Bleakley, Jr.
The limitation proceeding in issue arose out of a collision on the Hudson River between the Motor Vessel Poling Bros. No. 7 and a rowboat, on May 10, 1953. On October 23, 1953, an action for damages of $100,000 was instituted in the Supreme Court of New York, Westchester County,…
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- Steamship Co. v. MountSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Curtis Bay Towing Co. v. Tug Kevin Moran, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947
- Davenport v. Winnisimmet Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1908
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- Petition of Lake Tankers CorporationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1955