Legal Opinion
The Emilia
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 3, 1935PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
This is a suit in admiralty for sea water damage to shipments of refined sugar, raw sugar, and tobacco, carried to New York from San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the Steamship Emilia, sailing from San Juan on March 18, 1931, and arriving at New York on March 24, 1931.
On the voyage, heavy weather, with high, choppy seas, was encountered off Cape Hatteras, and the strain on the vessel fractured a deck plate at the starboard forward corner of No. 4 hatch, allowing water to enter the No. 4 ’tween deck, and from there to overflow into the lower hold. The crack through which the water…
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- The RosaliaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1920
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