Legal Opinion
Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided September 1, 1953No. 910PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WRIGHT, District Judge.
This case graphically portrays the quandary in which the Marine Industry, as it relates to towing contracts, finds itself because of two decisions of the Supreme Court. In the first of these decisions, The Wash Gray (Compania de Navegacion Interior, S. A., v. Fireman’s Final Insurance Company), 1 the court held, in interpreting a towage contract, that the provision “all risk to be borne by the tow” did not release the tug from liability for damage caused by its negligence, whereas in Sun Oil Company v. Dalzell Towing Company, 2 the court held valid and enforcible the…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Railroad Co. v. LockwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Stevens v. the White CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Santa Fe, Prescott & Phœnix Railway Co. v. Grant Bros. Construction Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Sun Oil Co. v. Dalzell Towing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1955
- Sewerage and Water Board v. the Joe L. HillDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1954
- Koch-Ellis Marine Contractors, Inc. v. Sewerage & Water Board of New OrleansCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1955
- Bisso v. Inland Waterways Corp.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1954
- Compania De Navegacion Cristobal, S. A. v. The Lisa RDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1953
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