Legal Opinion
Cullen Fuel Co. v. W. E. Hedger, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 6, 1933No. 9PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Roberts
The petitioner owned a deck scow known as Cullen No. 32. The respondent wished to use her to lighter ore from ship-side in New York harbor to the plant of the Grasselli Chemical Co., the consignee of the ore. A charter for an indefinite term, at a fixed daily rate of hire, was orally arranged by telephone with the petitioner’s marine superintendent. The day following the demise, while being loaded from the ship, the scow capsized, dumped her cargo, and damaged an adjacent wharf and vessel. Suits ensued, one of them by the respondent as.bailee of the cargo, against the petitioner as owner of…
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