Legal Opinion
The Socony No. 9
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 17, 1934No. 138PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The cause of suit hero on appeal arose out of a collision on March 23, 1929, in a dense fog at the mouth of the Kill van Kull, close beside the St. George Ferry racks. The injured vessel, the Conemaugh, originally a freighter built during the war, but later converted into a tanker, had been at Bayonne and wished to be towed out through the Kill to the Upper Bay. For this purpose, being without steam, she hired the two Card tugs to take her out, one made fast on either side. By the time the flotilla rounded Bergen Point into the Kill the weather had begun to thicken, and…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- The City of NorfolkCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1920
- Atlas S. S. Co. v. La Campagnie Generale TransatlantiqueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1898
- Hughes v. Pennsylvania R. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1899
- The Northern QueenDistrict Court, W.D. New York · 1902
- Hughes v. Pennsylvania R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1902
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Atlantic Refining Co. v. MollerSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- In re Socony Vacuum Transp. Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1950
- The MontroseDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1942
- Atlantic Refining Co. v. The Laura MaerskCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1942
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. Co. v. the WC HarmsDistrict Court, S.D. Texas · 1954
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