Legal Opinion
The S. S. Hewitt
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 2, 1922PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, District Judge.
The petitioner was the owner of the S. S. Hewitt, which cleared from the port of Sabine, Tex., on January 20, 1921, for Boston, Mass., and was last spoken on January 25, 1921, off Jupiter, Fla. It is supposed that -she foundered at sea shortly thereafter. The next of kin of 18 of the officers and crew sued the owners at law in the state courts and it was to enjoin these actions that this petition was filed.
The petition alleged the foregoing facts and that the total loss of the Hewitt was without fault of the petitioner, and was caused without its privity or…
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