In re Jeremiah Smith & Sons, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. Proceedings in admiralty by Jeremiah Smith & Sons, Incorporated, owner of the gasoline screw oyster boat Jennie L,. Smith, for limitation of liability. Decree for petitioner, and Edward O’Neill, a damage claimant, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
WARD, Circuit Judge.
This is a petition under Supreme Court admiralty rule 54† asking that the liability, if any, of Jeremiah Smith & Sons, Incorporated, owners of the gasoline screw oyster boat, Jennie E. Smith, for the consequences of an explosion be limited and at the same time denying liability.
December 22, 1908, at about 7:30 a. m., when the boat’s tanks were being filled with gasoline in the harbor of Fall River, an explosion occurred which injured several of the crew and burned the boat to the water’s edge. There were two tanks side by side in the forward part of the boat extending from…
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