The Willem Van Driel, Sr.
District Court, D. Maryland
In Admiralty. Suits by Namlooze Vennoot Schap, master of the •steamship Willem Van Driel, Sr., and by Edwin Dyason, master of the steamship Welbech Hall, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and the Central Elevator Company. Decree for libelants, against the Elevator Company only.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
[1] On the 13th of last June, two steamships were made fast to the pier upon which there then stood an elevator from which each of them was receiving grain. One of them, the Welbech Hall by name, was on the east side of the wharf; the other, the Willem Van Driel, Sr., on the west. The distance between the pier side of each of these ships and the elevator did not exceed some •8 or 10 feet. By 2 o'clock in the afternoon each had already a large part of its cargo aboard.' About that time, with an explosion which *287brought down the upper part of the elevator the whole building…
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- Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. KelloggSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Ryan v. . New York Central RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1866
- Hoffman v. . KingNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Rogers v. . Atlantic, Gulf Pacific Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1915
- Lehigh Valley R. Co. v. DupontCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1904
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