The Kronprinzessin Cecilie
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Clarence Hale, Judge. Libel by the Guaranty Trust Company of New York against the steamship Kronprinzessin Cecilie, claimed by the North German Lloyd, together with libels by Charles W. Rantoul, Jr., by Maurice Hansaens, and by the National City Bank of New York against the same vessel. From a decree dismissing the libels (228 Fed. 946), libelants appeal.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Clarence Hale, Judge. Libel by the Guaranty Trust Company of New York against the steamship Kronprinzessin Cecilie, claimed by the North German Lloyd, together with libels by Charles W. Rantoul, Jr., by Maurice Hansaens, and by the National City Bank of New York against the same vessel. From a decree dismissing the libels (228 Fed. 946), libelants appeal. Reversed as to the libel by the Guaranty Trust Comany of New York and National City Bank of New York, and affirmed as to the libels of Charles W.…
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, Circuit Judge.
The careful and detailed statement of the material facts involved in these cases which is found in the opinion of the District Court (228 Fed. 946) will render direct reference unnecessary to the evidence in the record, except in a few instances. As to the facts there is little or no controversy.
[1] 1. From Bremen, the home port of this German steamship and her ultimate port of destination on the voyage here in question, her owner, a German corporation, sent a wireless message to her master on July 31, 1914, at 2:45 p. m. This message he. received on board the ship, at…
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- The Styria, Scopinich v. MunroeSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- The G. R. BoothSupreme Court of the United States · 1898
- Balfour v. Portland & Asiatic S. S. Co.District Court, D. Oregon · 1909
- The Kronprinzessin CecilieDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1916
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