Legal Opinion
The Mendocino
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided October 7, 1929No. 18880PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BORAH, District Judge.
This ease involves a collision between the steamship Lake Fairport, belonging to the Mobile, Miami & Gulf Steamship Company, Inc., and the steamship Mendocino, belonging to Wilh. Wilhelmsen of Tonsberg, Noiway. The collision occurred during the morning of April 1, 1927, in New Orleans Harbor. The Lake Fairport was moored at the wharf of the American Sugar Refining Company with her head upstream discharging cargo. She had a head line made up of three parts running from a port chock on her bow across her head to the wharf; a breast and spring line leading from the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- The OregonSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- The City of New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- The LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1866
- The Granite StateSupreme Court of the United States · 1866
- Gulf of MexicoCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
3Cited by3 opinions
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- The ManhattanDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1932
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