Legal Opinion
Petition of Esso Shipping Co.
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided March 19, 1954No. 1058PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
KENNERLY, Chief Judge.
Following a collision in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 1951, between the Esso Suez and the Esso Greensboro, two steamships owned and operated by the Esso Shipping Company, in which there was heavy loss of life and injuries to many persons, besides large property loss, the Esso Shipping Company October 4, 1951, filed in this court its petition for exoneration from and limitation of liability, Title 46, §§ 183 to 189, U.S.C.A., and Admiralty Rule 51 et seq., 28 U.S.C.A. All claims of persons for death, personal injury or property loss arising out of such collision and…
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