The John D. Rockefeller
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Admiralty. Suit for collision by the Standard Oil Company, as owner of the steamship John D. Rockefeller, against the steamship Falls City., Decree for respondent.
1Opinion of the Court
WADDILL, District Judge.
[1] On the evening of the 15th of November, 1917, about S :30 o’clock the collision, the subject of this litigation, occurred in the waters of the Mississippi river, at New Orleans, at a point approximately off and slightly below Poland street, and in the vicinity of Pauline street wharf, between two large ocean-going steamships, the John D. Rockefeller, 458.3 feet long, 60 feet beam, and 28.6 feet deep, and the Falls City, 397 feet long, 52 feet beam; the port quarter of the Falls City striking the port bow of the Rockefeller. Each ship was seriously damaged; the…
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- The Eugene F. MoranSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Wilmington Ry. Bridge Co. v. Franco-Ottoman Shipping Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1919
- The DorsetCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1919
- The DorsetDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1918
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