The Newark
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Suit by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey against the. Steamboat Newark. On exceptions to suggestions of United States attorney.
1Opinion of the Court
KNOX, District Judge.
While it is true that the Newark, at the time of the commission of the tort alleged against her, was in the possession and control of the United States, and manned and officered by the Navy Department, she is not, now that she has been returned to private ownership, immune from liability for the tort of which she is said to be guilty.
A very similar, if not the precise, point here involved was before the court in The Gloria (D. C.) 267 Fed. 929. Judge Teamed Hand there held that a lien might accrue against a ship at a time when she was a part of the United States Navy and…
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