Legal Opinion
Empire Transport, Inc., Owner of the Steamship Potomac v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 2, 1975No. 344, Docket 74-1735PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
Empire Transport, Inc., owner of the SS Potomac, appeals from a judgment entered March 26, 1974 after a four day bench trial in the Southern District of New York before Harold R. Tyler, Jr., District Judge. The judgment dismissed Empire’s complaint which invoked the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the district court pursuant to the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C. §§ 741-52 (1970), and sought to recover $1.5 million damages from the United States resulting from the stranding of the Potomac on two large, submerged concrete blocks in Casablanca Harbor, Morocco, on…
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