Legal Opinion
The Fairwill
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided September 28, 1944No. 6853PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WYCHE, District Judge.
On November 5, 1942, in the Elizabeth River, Norfolk. Harbor, the motor vessel Lillian Anne, owned by Eularia M. Gate-wood, collided with Dump Scow 72-H in tow of tug Fairwill. The scow was owned by the R. C. Huffman Construction Company and the tug Fairwill by W. S. Sanders. On or about January 30, 1943, the R. C. Huffman Construction Company filed a libel against Eularia M. Gatewood, the motor tug Fairwill and W. S. Sanders to recover collision damages in the sum of $47,500, alleged to have been suffered by the scow. Because the motor vessel Lillian Anne was then under…
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- In Re MorrisonSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
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