Eastern S. S. Corp. v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
i ^Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; James M. Morton, Judge, Petition to limit liability by the Great Uakes Dredge & Dock Company, to which the Eastern Steamship Corporation, as damage claimant, filed an answer. From a decree (250 Fed. 916), both parties appeal.
1DissentAnderson, Circuit Judge
In the conclusion that the dredge company is not entitled to limit its liability I concur. From the reasoning of the foregoing opinion I am constrained to dissent; I think it lays down propositions unsound and fraught with serious danger.(1) I do not think this drillboat was a vessel within the meaning of the limited liability acts. I think the weight of authority and of sound argument is that it was not a vessel.
*506R. S. § 3, defines a vessel as follows:
“The word ‘vessel’ includes every description of water craft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of…
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