Legal Opinion
United States Steel Products Co. v. American & Foreign Ins.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 9, 1936No. 285PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal by the respondents from a decree in the admiralty in a suit in personam against underwriters for general average contribution. The libellant is the owner of the ship, “Steel Scientist,” which went ashore in the Caribbean on the little islet of Farallón Sucio, a few miles off the coast of Panama and twenty-four miles from the Colon breakwater, on April 13, 1926. She was floated and most of the cargo eventually delivered in accordance with the bills of lading, after executing general average bonds for the expenses incident to the salvage. The…
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