Legal Opinion
Scow No. 190 & Four Hundred & Fifty Bales Cotton
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided July 12, 1898PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS, District Judge.
This suit originated in a libel for salvage filed May 18,1898, by one Schultz, owner of a steam tug, against the Bay Line scow No. 190 and 450 bales of cotton. On May 17, 1898, about noon, a fire broke out on the wharf of the Baltimore Steam-Packet Company, usually called the “Bay Line,” in the port of Baltimore, while a scow belonging to said Bay Line was lying at its wharf, having on it 450 bales of cotton, just brought from Norfolk by one of the Bay Line steamers, and which was about to be sent on board an ocean steamer of the Johnston Line, to be carried to…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Caze v. Baltimore InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1813
- The Nathaniel HooperU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1839
- British & Foreign Marine Ins. Co. v. Southern Pac. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1896
- Hurtin v. Union Ins. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Pennsylvania · 1806
- British & Foreign Marine Ins. v. Southern Pac. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1893
3Cited by2 opinions
- Mitsui v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
- Merchants' & Miners' Transp. Co. v. Seven Hundred & One Bales of CottonDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1914