Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid Works, Inc. v. Travelers Ins.

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, dismissing a libel and petition for limitation of liability filed by the appellant, Standard Wholesale Phosphate & Acid %Works, Incorporated, here referred to as the petitioner, as owner of the barge “Maine”. The matters in controversy grew out of injuries alleged to have been sustained by the three individual appellees, Charles F. Mack, William Brooks, and Lawrence Blische, while engaged in preparing to load the barge with a cargo of concentrated sulphuric acid.

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