Legal Opinion
Jarka Corp. v. Pennsylvania R.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided December 20, 1941No. Civil Action No. 1296PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHESNUT, District Judge.
The plaintiff is a general stevedoring corporation doing business at the Ports of Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other places on the Atlantic seaboard. The defendant is The Pennsylvania Railroad Company which has pier terminals in Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Atlantic ports. In this case the stevedoring corporation is suing the Railroad for services in “barring” open top rail cars placed by the Railroad alongside the hatches of freight steamships docked at the piers of the Railroad in the Baltimore Harbor. The “barring” of railroad cars means the shifting of the…
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- United States v. American Sheet & Tin Plate Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
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