Legal Opinion
The Onteora
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 2, 1923PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEARNED HAND, District Judge.
The libelants filed a libel in ,rem against the steamers Clermont and Onteora, alleging swell damage to their lighter. The claimants, the commissioners of Palisades Interstate Park, are a corporation aggregate created by the laws of New York (chapter 170, Laws of 1900) and of New Jersey (Compiled Stat. p. 3890), as a “body politic, with power to sue and be sued.” They are vested with title to certain lands along the Hudson river, to be held and preserved as a public park. They are authorized to provide means for the access to, and accommodation within, the park of…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Ex Parte State of New York, No. 1Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Darlington v. . Mayor, C., of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1865
- Missano v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Smith v. . State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
- Ex Parte State of New York, No. 2Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Trotman v. Palisades Interstate Park CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1977
- Bush Terminal Co. v. City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1934
- Conklin v. Palisades Interstate Park CommissionAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1953
- The West PointDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1947
- Voorhis v. Cornell Contracting Corp.City of New York Municipal Court · 1938
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