The Germanic
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion. The Harter Act. exempts the ship from liability. She was seaworthy when she left Liverpool and the cargo was in good order when she arrived in New York. Even if the captain was negligent his treatment of the ship, and cargo was part of her management under the act. For history of the act see 24 Cong.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT. The facts are stated in the opinion. The Harter Act. exempts the ship from liability. She was seaworthy when she left Liverpool and the cargo was in good order when she arrived in New York. Even if the captain was negligent his treatment of the ship, and cargo was part of her management under the act. For history of the act see 24 Cong. Rec. 147, 171, 1180. The exemption under the act continues until the cargo is delivered from the ship. The Glenochil, Prob. (1896) 10; The Silvia, 171 U. S. 462; Knott v. Botany Mills, 179 U.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This writ of certiorari brings up the record of two cases which were tried together upon libels filed by cargo owners and underwriters to-recover for water damage done to goods on board the steamship Germanic. 107 Fed. Rep. 294; 124 Fed. Rep. 1. The steamer reached her pier in New York at about noon, Saturday, February 11, 1899. She was heavily coated with ice, estimated by the courts below at not less than 213 tons, and this weight was increased by a heavy fall of snow after.her arrival. She was thirty-six hours late, and in order to sail at her regular time on the following Wednesday,…
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