Legal Opinion
The Hoffmans
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 24, 1909PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, District Judge.
This is a petition on the part of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, as owner of the barge Hoffmans, to limit its liability to the value of the barge and freight, ascertained to have been, directly after the disaster, $4,988.22, with respect to a loss by fire in September, 1907, on 3,500 bales of twine, belonging to the International Harvester Company, and shipped by it on the railroad at Auburn, New York, on the 12th of September, 1907, to New York, for export. The value of the shipment was $14,505.37, but it was not all burned and the salvage having…
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