Binstock v. Friedman

The claimants in this shipowner’s limitation of liability proceeding appeal from a final decree dismissing their claims and cross-claims and granting exoneration to the petitioner. Judge Cashin’s opinion gives the essential facts that preceded the tragic accident which occasioned this litigation, and is reported at 213 F.Supp. 909.

The appellants’ attacks on the decree center on the ideas that the yacht Ina B. II was not reasonably fit for use under the prevailing weather and sea conditions and that petitioner should have refused the decedents, Samuel Glassberg and Murray Friedman, permission…