Legal Opinion

The Vale Royal

District Court, D. Maryland

Decided August 6, 1943No. 2576PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COLEMAN, District Judge.

The present suit, brought by the libellants as owners of the barge Vale Royal, and as bailees of her cargo of coal, when she stranded in Cape Cod Bay at the eastern end of the Cape Cod Canal, on the breakwater near Sandwich, Massachusetts, during the night of August 24, 1942, is against the Eastern Transportation Company, the tug Trojan and three barges, the Joseph J. Hock, the Eugenia Hooper and the Joan Kunkel, all of which are owned and operated by the Eastern Transportation Company.

The Trojan had been towing all four barges from Jersey City bound for Boston, and…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Sun Printing and Publishing Assn. v. MooreSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
  2. Stevens v. the White CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1932
  3. Commercial Molasses Corp. v. New York Tank Barge Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
  4. Sacramento Navigation Co. v. SalzSupreme Court of the United States · 1927
  5. The "Margaret."Supreme Court of the United States · 1877

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3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Heinrich C. Horn, of the M/s Heinz Horn v. Cia De Navegacion Fruco, S.A. And J. R. Atkins, D/B/A Alabama Fruit and Produce Companu, Cia De Navegacion Fruco, S.A. And J. R. Atkins, D/B/A Albama Fruit and Produce Company v. Heinrich C. Horn, of the M/s Heinz HornCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1969
  2. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Sea-Land Service, Inc.District Court, D. Puerto Rico · 1970
  3. United States v. the Australia StarCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1949
  4. Horn v. Cia de Navegacion FrucoCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1968
  5. Orient Mid-East Lines, Inc. v. Shipment of RiceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974

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