Legal Opinion
Petition of United States
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 19, 1952PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYAN, District Judge.
This is a limitation proceeding by Isbrandtsen Company, Inc., seeking exoneration from or limitation of liability as chartered owner of S.S. Edmund Fanning with respect to claims arising out of fire and explosion occasioning the total loss of the vessel and her cargo in Genoa on March 13, 1947.
On September 4, 1947, Isbrandtsen Company, Inc. filed a petition in this Court for exoneration under the Fire Statute, 46 U.S.C.A. § 182 from any loss, damage or injury in any way arising out of or in consequence of the fire and explosion on board the Fanning, or, if it was to be…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Liverpool & Great Western Steam Co. v. Phenix InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Luckenbach v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
- The Ansaldo San Giorgio I v. Rheinstrom Brothers Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Pendleton v. Benner LineSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
- Waterman S. S. Corp. v. United States Smelting, Refining & Mining Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1946
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Petitions of the Kinsman Transit Company, as Owner and Operator of the Steamer MacGilvray Shiras, and of Midland Steamship Line, Inc., as Owner and Operator of the Steamer Michael K. Tewksbury, Their Engines, Etc., for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability, City of Buffalo, Claimant-Respondent-Appellant, Kelley Island New York Corporation, Claimants-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1964
- Waterman Steamship Corporation v. Gay Cottons, United States of America and Shalom Baby WearCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1969
- In re Kinsman Transit Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1964
- United States v. Wessel, Duval & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1953
- American Coal Co. v. Federal Mine Safety & Health Review CommissionCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 2015
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