Legal Opinion
West of England Ship Owners Mutual Protection & Indemnity Ass'n v. Patriarch Steamship Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided June 17, 1980No. Civ. A. 71-1019-G, 71-1020-GPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
GARRITY, District Judge.
These cases call for a determination of the rights of various parties in a fund of $73,000 now held in escrow by defendant Newton-Waltham Bank & Trust Company. They were consolidated; and liability issues were separated from those pertaining to damages and tried without a jury. The underlying facts are undisputed.
In 1965 the Newton-Waltham Bank & Trust Company (hereinafter referred to as “Bank”) obtained a first preferred ship’s mortgage on the SS Patraic Sky, a Liberian flag vessel, as collateral for a $300,000 loan to the Patriarch Steamship…
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