Monongahela River Consol. Coal & Coke Co. v. Hurst
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. Proceeding in admiralty by the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company and the Huntington & St. Louis Towb.oat Company for limitation of liability. Pleas in bar by Mrs. Emma Hurst and Mrs. Bessie Schinnerer were sustained, and petitioners appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. Proceeding in admiralty by the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Company and the Huntington & St. Louis Towb.oat Company for limitation of liability. Pleas in bar by Mrs. Emma Hurst and Mrs. Bessie Schinnerer were sustained, and petitioners appeal. Under libels in personam filed May 13, 1910, in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee, against the appellants, decrees, each in the sum of $10,000, were rendered January 28, 1911, in favor of the respective…
1Opinion of the CourtKnappen, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Section 4283 of the Revised Statutes (Act March 3, 1851, c. 43, 9 Stat. 635 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 2943]), provides that:
“The liability of the owner of any vessel, for any embezzlement, loss, or destruction, by any person, of any property, goods or merchandise, shipped or put on board of such vessel, or for any loss, damage, or injury by collision, or for any act, matter, or thing lost, damage, or forfeiture, done, occasioned or incurred, without the privity, or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no ease exceed the amount or value of the…
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