Legal Opinion
In re Fenwick Island, Inc.
District Court, E.D. North Carolina
Decided February 11, 1971No. Civ. A. No. 1380-APublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON MOTION TO TRANSFER
DALTON, District Judge, sitting by designation.
This cause is a petition by the plaintiff for an exoneration from or limitation of any liability due to the sinking of its fishing vessel FENWICK ISLAND on December 7, 1968 in which seven lives were lost. 46 U.S.C. § 185. It is before the court on claimant’s motion to transfer the action to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Several factors influence the court to find that the motion ought to be denied.
The decedents are stipulated to have been residents of the Eastern District of…
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