Legal Opinion
The Kearny
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided April 13, 1933No. 13609PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
INCH, District Judge.
Motion to dissolve a restraining order issued by this court in proceedings to limit liability.
On January 2,7, 1932, Thomas Johnsen, a deckhand on the steam lighter Kearny, was hurt. He claims he was injured by being “crushed between the said steamlighter and a vessel lying in the harbor of New York.”
On September 23, 1932, he commenced a common-law action against the owner and operator of the said steam lighter by service of a summons and complaint in the state Supreme Court, Kings county. On October 15, 1932, that defendant duly answered, and the action was duly noticed…
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