National Surety Co. v. Union Oil Co. of California
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court "of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Libel by the Union Oil Company of California against the steamship Portland and another to enforce the maritime lien. Decree in favor of libelant, and claimant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court "of the United States for the First Division of the Northern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Libel by the Union Oil Company of California against the steamship Portland and another to enforce the maritime lien. Decree in favor of libelant, and claimant appeals. Libel in rem to recover the value of fuel oil furnished by Union Oil Company to the steamship Portland on different occasions between July 5 and November 27, 1912. About April 18, 1911, the California-Atlantic Steamship Company contracted with the Union Oil Company of California that…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] The
purpose of the act of 1910 was to. give certainty where uncertainty and conflict of decision had arisen upon the question of the liability of a ship for materials and service. In The Yankee, 233 Fed. 919, 147 C. C. A. 593, the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit summarizes the contrariety of views and refers to the learned opinion of Judge Lowell in The Underwriter (D. C.) 119 Fed. 713, as demonstrating the confusion which through centuries has obscured the subject. This court, too, considered the,state of the law in The South Coast, 247 Fed. 84,…
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- The OceanaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1917
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