Port Utilities Commission v. Marine Oil Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. W. C. Cothran, Acting Associate Justice.

It appears that the little word “slip” has various and sundry meanings. In a case now pending in this Court, “slip” is used to designate a piece of paper upon which there was written a report by a doctor for a health claim against an insurance company. In this case “slip” is used to designate open water adjoining a warf. We have not yet encountered it as a “slip of the tongue,” although it has been met in a slip on a banana peel, nor have we had occasion to refer to it as used to describe a very important…