Legal Opinion
Fireman's Fund Ins. Co. v. City of Monterey
District Court, N.D. California
Decided June 9, 1925No. 18569-18572PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KERRIGAN, District Judge.
These are four libels, brought by certain insurance corporations against the city of Monterey, a municipal corporation. Libelants are assignees of the shippers of a large number of eases of canned sardines, which were lost or damaged when a wharf, owned and operated for commercial purposes by respondent, collapsed and precipitated said cases into the navigable waters of Monterey Bay.
The libels allege that the wharf was caused to collapse by respondent’s fault and negligence: .(1) In allowing the steamer San Antonio to moore alongside it; (2) in failing to breast off…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- The StraboCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1900
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3Cited by7 opinions
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