The Titanic
District Court, S.D. New York
In Admiralty. Proceeding by the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, as owner of .the steamship Titanic, for limitation of liability. On exceptions to petition.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLT, District Judge.
The questions involved in this case arise upon exceptions to a petition for the limitation of liability filed by the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, as owner of the British steamship Titanic. The petition alleges, in substance, among other things, that the petitioner, the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, is a British registered company, operating a line of cargo and passenger steamships between Southampton and New York; that the petitioner was the sole owner of the steamship Titanic, built in Belfast and launched in 1911; that on April 10, 1912, the…
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