Legal Opinion

The Banes

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided February 9, 1915No. 126PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

1Opinion of the Court

WARD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court awarding damages to the libelant for breach of a charter party by reason of unseaworthiness.

January 27, 1909, Daniel Bacon, the claimant and managing owner of the steamer Banes, chartered her under the usual government form for a term of seven months in the West India fruit trade to the American Importing & Transportation Company. The charter required the owners to maintain the hull and machinery in a thoroughly efficient state and to maintain the boilers in a condition to bear a working pressure of at least 60 pounds…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. The HabilDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1900

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Demsey & Associates, Inc. v. S.S. Sea StarCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
  2. Thor v. Tropical Fruit Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
  3. Arnold Bernstein Shipping Co. v. Tidewater Commercial Co.District Court, D. Maryland · 1949
  4. Actieselskabet Dampsk. Thorbjorn v. Harrison & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1918
  5. Cuneo Importing Co. v. American Importing & Transportation Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1916

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