OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY v. MELLOR

No. 798.

233 U.S. 718 (1914)

OCEANIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED, AS OWNER OF THE STEAMSHIP TITANIC, v. MELLOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles C. Burlingham, Mr. Norman B. Beecher, and Mr. J. Parker Kirlin, for Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., Ltd..

Mr. Frederick M. Brown and Mr. George Whitefield Betts, Jr., with whom Mr. Francis H. Kinnicutt, Mr. Kenneth Gardner and Mr. John C. Prizer were on the brief, for Mellor and Anderson.


MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes here upon a certificate from the Circuit Court of Appeals. The facts stated are as follows, with slight abbreviation. The Titanic, a British steamship, which had sailed from Southampton, England, on her maiden voyage for New York, collided on the high seas with an iceberg, on April 14, and sank the next morning, with the loss of many lives and total loss...

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