Legal Opinion
United States v. Mountain State Fabricating Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided August 8, 1960No. 8142PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOBELOFF, Chief Judge.
A stock pile of crude rubber belonging to the United States and stored in a warehouse at Clarksburg, West Virginia, was damaged, and all but destroyed,1 in a fire on July 10, 1952. More than six years later, on October 3, 1958, the Government began an action against two of the defendants, The Mountain State Fabricating Company and General Storage Company.
The allegation against the first of these, Mountain State, was that the fire loss was caused by the negligence of its employees in the course of certain welding work which they were doing on the roof of a building under…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Law v. PhillipsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1952
- Elswick v. Charleston Transit Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1945
- Reynolds v. W. T. Grant Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1936
- Trump v. Bluefield Water Works & Improvement Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1925
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Belk, Incorporated v. Meyer Corporation, U.S.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2012
- Odessa Woods v. The National Life and Accident Insurance Company, a Tennessee CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1965
- Donald L. Warner, by His Next Friend, James A. Warner, Jr., and James A. Warner, Jr. v. Kewanee MacHinery & Conveyor Company, a Foreign CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1969
- Nelson H. Trout v. The Pennsylvania Railroad CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1962
- The Nature Conservancy v. NakilaHawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals · 1983
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