Legal Opinion
Caterpillar Americas Company v. SS Sea Roads
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided July 15, 1964No. 63-149PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FULTON, District Judge.
This admiralty case involves a libel in rem and in personam for cargo damage resulting when Libelant’s tractor was dropped into the water while being unloaded from the Respondent vessel. This Court has jurisdiction over the parties to and the subject matter of this case.
There is no controversy concerning the essential facts of the accident. Libelant delivered the tractor and assorted parts to the Respondent, Sea Road Shipping Company, on or about July 10, 1963, for carriage to Nassau, Bahamas. On July 15, 1963, the tractor, while being unloaded, was dropped into salt…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Petition of Isbrandtsen Company, Inc. Isbrandtsen Co., Inc. v. United States. The Edmund FanningCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1953
- Brazil Oiticica, Ltd. v. the BillDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1944
- Gulf Italia Company, Libellant-Appellee v. American Export Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1959
- Mitsubishi International Corporation, Libellant-Appellant v. S.S. Palmetto State and States Marine Corporation of DelawareCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1962
- The Steel InventorDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1940
3Cited by32 opinions
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- Standard Electrica, S.A. v. Hamburg Sudamerikanische Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft, Defendant-Appellee,and Columbus Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
- Hiram Walker & Sons, Inc. v. Kirk LineCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1989
- Croft & Scully Co. v. M/v Skulptor Vuchetich, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1982
- A. L. Holden, Doing Business Under the Name and Style of R. L. Pritchard & Company v. S. S. Kendall Fish, Her Engines, Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
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