Legal Opinion
In re Trinidad Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 28, 1955No. 257, Docket 23478PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINCKS, Circuit Judge.
On February 18, 1952, in rough water off Cape Cod, while on a voyage from Louisiana to Maine, the petitioner’s tank steamship Fort Mercer broke in two. Of the nine men on the forward section of the vessel, five lost their lives. Four men on the forward section and twenty-one men on the stern section were rescued the following day and all other survivors remained on the stern section until it was towed to port. Three actions in behalf of twenty surviving members of the crew were brought in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York under the…
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