Legal Opinion
Petition of Isbrandtsen Company, Inc. Isbrandtsen Co., Inc. v. United States. The Edmund Fanning
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 15, 1953No. 109, Docket 22503PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
In September 1947 Isbrandtsen Company, Inc., a domestic corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York (hereinafter called Isbrandtsen) filed a petition in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking exoneration under the Fire Statute, 46 U.S.C.A. § 182, from liability for a fire on board the Liberty Vessel S. S. Edmund Fanning, which Isbrandtsen had chartered from its owner, the United States. The petition also asked that if Isbrandtsen should be adjudged liable its liability be limited to the value of its…
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