Legal Opinion
The Cleveland
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 7, 1941PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GODDARD, District Judge.
Petitioners seek limitation of and exoneration from liability for the loss of several barges and their cargoes which were in a hawser tow of the Pennsylvania Rail*820road Company in the hurricane of September 21, 1938.
At 12:01 A.M.* September 21, 1938, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company’s tug Cleveland left South Amboy, New Jersey, with a tow of fourteen loaded coal boats bound for the Pennsylvania Railroad stake-boat which is located a little below and to the eastward of Ellis Island in upper New York Bay. The tow was made up in five tiers. Three boats abreast in the first…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Stevens v. the White CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. CalhounSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Aldrich v. Pennsylvania R.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918
- Seaboard Equipment Corp. v. Red Star Towing & Transportation Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1919
- Mulvana v. The AnchoriaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1897
3Cited by1 opinion
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