Legal Opinion
Murphy v. Export Steamship Corp.
City of New York Municipal Court
Decided March 14, 1934Published
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
The action is for damage to a shipment of automobiles and trucks carried from New York to Beirut, Syria, in the defendant’s steamship Excambion. At the port of Beirut the harbor is shallow, and, customarily, discharge of cargo takes place into lighters. A lighter took the cargo from the side of the ship on the afternoon of October 26, 1931, and went into an anchorage inside the harbor. The next day the cargo slid into the water from the lighter and the lighter sank. No reason, except the unseaworthiness of the lighter, explains the sinking. The lighter was neither owned nor operated by…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Constable v. National Steamship Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- F. A. Straus & Co. v. Canadian Pacific Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1930
- Kilthau v. International Mercantile Marine Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1927
- Austin Nichols & Co. v. Compania TrasatlanticaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1926
- Austin Nichols Co., Inc. v. TrasatlanticaNew York Court of Appeals · 1927
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