Legal Opinion
Sinram v. Pennsylvania R. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 14, 1932No. 67PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
Sinram Brothers filed a libel in person-am against the respondent for the sinking of their barge after a collision, while in tow of one of the respondent’s tugs. The Insurance Company of North America was the underwriter of, and had paid the loss upon, a cargo of coal laden on the barge after her injury; it intervened in the suit pro inter-esse suo. We shall speak of the Sinram Brothers as the owner, and of the insurance company as the underwriter.
On January 28, 1928, the railroad’s tug, Overbrook, picked up the owner’s barge, Elmhurst, then light, in the East River and…
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. v. MihasSupreme Court of the United States · 1929
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