Legal Opinion

The Wildcroft

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 2, 1906No. 127PublishedCited by 92 opinions

CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE THIRD CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day

delivered thé opinion of the court.

The original action was begun by the filing of a libel in the District Court of the. United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the petitioner, with respect to a cargo of sugar of which it was the consignee, shipped upon the steamship “ Wildcroft ” from ports in Cuba to Philadelphia. The evidence showed that in the month of April, 1901, the “ Wildcroft,” having discharged a cargo of coal at the port of Havana, proceeded to Cardenas and Matanzas, where she took on the load of sugar, to be…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. In Re GAULTSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  2. The SouthwarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
  3. International Navigation Co. v. Farr & Bailey Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1901
  4. The Carib PrinceSupreme Court of the United States · 1898

3Cited by92 opinions

  1. Mahnich v. Southern Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1944
  2. Luckenbach v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
  3. Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
  4. La BourgogneSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  5. May v. Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt AktiengesellschaftSupreme Court of the United States · 1933

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