Legal Opinion
Norris Grain Co. of New York, Inc. v. Empire Canal Corp.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided July 18, 1930PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GALSTON, District Judge.
By stipulation these causes in admiralty were tried together.
The libelant Norris Grain Company of New York, Inc., was the owner of all of the grain loaded on the barge No. 237, and Mil-mine Bodman & Co., Inc., was the owner of all of the grain loaded on the barge No. 217. As a result of an accident at Sylvan Beach on Lake O'neida, September 6, 1924, these, barges went adrift and the cargoes were damaged.
The shipments of grain were made pursuant to written agreements between the libelants and the Empire Canal Corporation. The latter was a private carrier and had the…
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