Legal Opinion
In Re Read's Petition
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided December 5, 1963No. 2080-ADMPublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DYER, Chief Judge.
This is a proceeding in Admiralty on a Petition for Limitation of or Exoneration from Liability, 46 U.S.C.A. §§ 181-195. filed by L. HENRY READ, JR. and B. DEVEREAUX BARKER, JR., as owners of the yacht “MERIDIAN.” GEORGE PENNELL answered the Petition and filed claim for personal injury, no other claimants having appeared and their default having previously been noted. The facts are not in dispute.
The Petitioners each owned equal undivided fifty per cent shares in the two-masted auxiliary yacht “MERIDIAN”, an American pleasure yacht, Official No. 237391, registered length…
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