Legal Opinion
The Westmoreland
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 9, 1936No. 41PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The case comes up upon appeal from a decree for the claimant-respondent in a suit in rem and in personam upon cargo damage. The libellant was the owner of a cargo of sulphate of ammonia for the carriage of which between Everett, Massachusetts, and Norfolk, Virginia, it chartered the barge, “Westmoreland.” Towards the end of this voyage while near Cape May, the barge sprang a leak in moderate weather and damaged the cargo. The charter party covered the whole barge and its printed provisions incorporated the Harter Act (46 U.S.C.A. § 190 et seq.), but it also contained…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- The FriCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1907
- The G. R. CroweCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1923
- Leach v. Hedger Transp. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
- The Elizabeth EdwardsCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1928
- Atlantic Gulf & West Indies Steamship Lines v. Interocean Oil Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1929
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3Cited by23 opinions
- Peter Pannell, Libelant-Appellee v. United States Lines CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1959
- United States v. Wessel, Duval & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1953
- Farr v. Hain S. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1941
- Koppers Connecticut Coke Co. v. James McWilliams Blue Line, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1937
- J. B. Effenson Company v. Three Bays Corporation, Ltd.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1956
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