Legal Opinion
Standard Oil Co. of NJ v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 27, 1950No. 27 and 28PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
These are admiralty proceedings involving the Government’s liability on a policy of war risk insurance by which it insured petitioner’s steam tanker John Worthington against “all consequences of hostilities or warlike operations.” 1 Stipulated facts show that on December 16, 1942, there was a collision between the Worthington and the YMS-12, one of three United States Navy mine sweepers clearing the channel approaches to New York harbor.2 Both vessels were at fault in failing “to comply *56with the applicable rules” of good seamanship “under the circumstances.”
In the District Court the United…
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