Legal Opinion
General Motors Corp. v. Pennsylvania Railroad Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 12, 1973No. 66 Civ. 4076, 67 Civ. 926PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GURFEIN, District Judge.
In the small hours of a Saturday morning, March 5, 1966, the lighter 212 was left by a Pennsylvania Railroad (“Penn”) tug at the slip on the North side of the pier at 30th Street, Brooklyn. The tug Captain selected the berth, seeing “not a soul” on the pier (TM 140), 1 and moored the scow leaving her unattended. She was laden with eight tractors. General Motors (“GM”) had shipped the tractors and forty other items from its Hudson, Ohio plant to New York to be delivered at the order of GM to an ocean carrier for export to Brazil. The lighter was observed by a passing…
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