Legal Opinion

The Princess Sophia

District Court, W.D. Washington

Decided October 23, 1920No. 4553PublishedCited by 8 opinions

In Admiralty. Petition by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, owner of the steamship Princess Sophia, for limitation of liability. On motion to require the production of certain documents, etc.

1Opinion of the Court

NETERER, District Judge.

The petitioner seeks to limit liability of claim for damages on account of the vessel Princess Sophia foundering on Vanderbilt Reef. The claimants take issue, and seek to impress claims for damages. Interrogatories have heretofore been filed by the claimants, and exceptions sustained to some and answers made to others. The claimants now seek by motion to require the petitioner to produce:

First. “All letters, reports, statements, telegrams, cablegrams, wireless and radio messages, memoranda, containing substance of all telephone and radio messages, paper writings, and…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. La BourgogneSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  2. Carpenter v. WinnSupreme Court of the United States · 1911
  3. The HudsonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1883
  4. Cully v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1904
  5. Coronet Phosphate Co. v. United States Shipping Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1917

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3Cited by8 opinions

  1. Dowling v. Isthmian S.S. CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1950
  2. Massey v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1930
  3. MacLeod & Co. v. United StatesDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1924
  4. The CommonwealthDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1923
  5. The Forest T. CrosbyDistrict Court, W.D. Washington · 1929

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