Legal Opinion
The Edel
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 20, 1923PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, District Judge.
The case as now 'presented shows that the Murray did not cast off the lines of the car float, but sent up her deck hand, who went to an office on the Crane Company’s pier and there got a man, who came down and threw off the lines at one end of the float. This man naturally cannot be identified. Bahr, the Crane Company master in charge of boat movements, denies that it was he or any one under him.
The story may be untrue, but I do not see how I can hold the Murray in the face of it. Both these witnesses seemed honest, and each was no longer in the Murray’s employ. I…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Schutz v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
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- Lillian v. Robinson, as Administratrix of the Goods, Chattels and Credits of Frank Wallis Robinson, Deceased v. Northeastern Steamship CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1956
- The No. C-4District Court, S.D. New York · 1923
- In re Southern Pac. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1928
- The BeekoDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1925