Legal Opinion
Smith v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 10, 1924PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
AUGUSTUS N.. HAND,
District Judge. These are libels brought in personam against the Emergency Fleet Corporation for damages to cargo arising from an alleged deviation of the steamship West Aleta. The vessel stranded upon the coast of Holland on or about February 12, 1920, after she had passed the port of Rotterdam, to which the goods were consigned. The cargo shipped by Jacob Telfair Smith was bean oil, alleged to have been of the value of $155,000, and the cargo shipped by Catz American Company, Inc., was rice and nutmegs, of the value of $34,000.
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2Cases cited5 opinions
- Sloan Shipyards Corp. v. United States Shipping Bd. Emergency Fleet CorporationSupreme Court of the United States · 1922
- South Atlantic S. S. Line v. London-Savannah Naval Stores Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1918
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. v. LevensalerDistrict Court, District of Columbia · 1923
- Nilsen, Rantoul & Co. v. Ocean Transp. Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1922
- Gentilli v. The SidonianDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1888
3Cited by9 opinions
- The Frederick LuckenbachDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1926
- United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. v. Rosenberg Bros.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1926
- Smith v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1928
- Haroco Co. v. the Tai ShanDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1953
- The PelotasCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1933
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