Legal Opinion
Mente & Co. v. Isthmian S. S. Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 25, 1940No. 117 Â 305, 117 Â 350PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
This litigation grows out of the sinking of the British steamship “Quarrington Court” in the Red Sea on December 7, 1937. The disaster was caused by the flooding of the vessel following a break in the main injection pipe and the concurrent jamming of the main injection valve.
The Vessel was owned by Court Line, Ltd., an English corporation, and was under charter to Isthmian Steamship Corporation, a Delaware corporation. She was on a voyage from Calcutta to ports in the United States with a cargo of manganese ore, jute, burlap and Hessian cloth. As a result of the sinking…
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