Legal Opinion
The Linseed King
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 17, 1930PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PATTERSON, District Judge.
This is a limitation of liability proceeding under section 4283 of the Revised Statutes (46 USCA §183). It comes before me on exceptions to a commissioner’s report.
On December 20, 1926, the Linseed King sank in the Hudson River. Many lives were lost. The survivors managed in one way or another not to be drowned, but suffered from exposure. The Linseed King was a launch owned and operated by Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc., which had a manufacturing plant at Edgewater, N. J. Many of the men employed there came from New York City. The launch was used to carry them from a…
2Cases cited34 opinions
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- New York Central Railroad Company v. WinfieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Luckenbach v. W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1918
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3Cited by9 opinions
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