International Navigation Co. v. Farr & Bailey Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD circuit. This was an action brought by the Farr and Bailey Manufacturing Company against the International Navigation Company, owner of the steamship Indiana, in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in admiralty, to recover the sum of $2081.15, for damages to twenty bales of burlaps which were delivered to the Navigation Company at Liverpool, England, on board that…
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD circuit. This was an action brought by the Farr and Bailey Manufacturing Company against the International Navigation Company, owner of the steamship Indiana, in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in admiralty, to recover the sum of $2081.15, for damages to twenty bales of burlaps which were delivered to the Navigation Company at Liverpool, England, on board that steamship, in good order and condition, for carriage to the Manufacturing Company at Philadelphia. Upon the arrival of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Counsel for petitioner states that the .question raised on this record is : “Was the Indiana unsea worthy at the time of beginning her voyage from Liverpool to Philadelphia, or was the failure to securely fasten the port covers and keep them fastened a fault or error in the management of the vessel under the exemption of the ‘ Harter act ? ’ ” 1
The courts below concurred in the conclusion that the Indi- > ana was unseaworthy when she sailed because of the condition of the port hole, but the District Judge on the reargument felt constrained to yield his individual convictions to the rule he…
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