Line v. Pendleton
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District Of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from a final decree of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York finding that the libelant is entitled to recover from the respondent Fields S. Pendleton nine-sixteenths of the amount of its damages, but that the said Fields S. Pendleton is entitled to limit his liability to his interest in the schooner Edith Olcott and her…
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District Of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from a final decree of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York finding that the libelant is entitled to recover from the respondent Fields S. Pendleton nine-sixteenths of the amount of its damages, but that the said Fields S. Pendleton is entitled to limit his liability to his interest in the schooner Edith Olcott and her freight, and dismissing the libel as to the said Pendleton, which decree was entered on November 29, 1913. The libelant…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This libel is filed by the libelant as bailee of a cargo of general merchan*499dise laden on board the schooner Edith Olcott, which was lost at sea with her entire cargo on August 7, 1910. The value of the cargo amounted to $40,000, and to recover this sum the suit is brought. The theory of the suit is that the respondent failed to furnish a seaworthy vessel at the beginning of the voyage. The respondent denied the allegations as to the unseaworthiness of the schooner and alleged that due diligence was exercised to make the vessel in all respects seaworthy and…
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