Legal Opinion
A. Russo & Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 14, 1930No. 5579PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSTER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant filed a libel against the United States and the Missouri Paeifie Railroad Company to recover $1,765 for damages to a shipment of 1,000 eases of peeled tomatoes from Palermo, Italy, to New Orleans, by the steamship Seantie, and from that port to Chicago by the railroad, alleged to have been caused by sea water on the ocean voyage. The railroad company filed an exception challenging the jurisdiction of the court to entertain the claim in admiralty. The United States filed an exception setting up no cause of action and laches, and that the right of action was…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railway Co. v. Blish Milling Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Railway Co. v. McCarthySupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- Myrick v. Michigan Central RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- The Steamer SyracuseSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Northern Pacific Railway Co. v. American Trading Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
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3Cited by22 opinions
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- The West ArrowCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1936
- The FerncliffDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1938
- Zifferer v. Atlantic Lines, Ltd.District Court, D. Puerto Rico · 1968
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