Legal Opinion
Petition of Colonial Trust Company
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided September 17, 1954No. 4530PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, District Judge.
The parties, by stipulation, have presented to the court a statement of facts and three questions to be answered in relation to them. These questions are: (1) does admiralty jurisdiction apply; (2) is the Colonial Trust Company, as trustee, an owner within the meaning of the provisions of the limitation of liability statute 46 U.S.C.A. § 183(a); and (3) is the petitioner Mrs. Elizabeth Deborah Steele Elton an “owner” within the provisions of the same statute.
At the time of his death on March 8, 1948, John P. Elton, of Waterbury, Connecticut, owned a gasoline-screw,…
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- The Main v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
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