Legal Opinion
Klarman v. Santini
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided August 16, 1973No. 4788Published
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MURPHY, Senior District Judge.
A bizarre accident on the navigable waters of the Saugatuck River in Connecticut resulting in the death of one Aldo Santini triggered this complex limitation proceeding in admiralty.
In the late afternoon of July 26, 1964, Howard Klarman, owner of the 28-foot auxiliary sloop Fling, and several guests • — his brother-in-law, two of his sons and two of their young friends — boarded the Fling at the Saugatuck Harbor Yacht Club, Westport Harbor, for a sail on Long Island Sound. The Fling, under power, headed south along the main channel of the Saugatuck River,…
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- The OsceolaSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Mitchell v. Trawler Racer, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
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