Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Coal Co. v. Howard
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 5, 1946No. 280PublishedCited by 95 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a decree in the admiralty entered upon the claim of the Metropolitan Coal Company in a proceeding for limitation of liability by Thomas J. Howard, as owner of the “box barge,” Thomas H. O’Leary. The question is how far Howard is liable for the loss of a cargo of coal owned by the claimant, when the barge, which carried it, foundered in Block Island Sound on December 4, 1940, about two miles west of the entrance to the Point Judith Harbor of Refuge. The facts are as follows. On November 1st, Howard and the Coal Company signed a charterparty,…
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