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JOHN BAIZLEY IRON WORKS v. UNITED STATES

6 F.2d 25 (1925)

JOHN BAIZLEY IRON WORKS v. UNITED STATES (four cases).

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 7, 1925.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willard M. Harris, of Philadelphia, Pa., for libelant.

Clinton M. Hester, Admiralty Atty., United States Shipping Board, of Washington, D. C., and George W. Coles, U. S. Atty., of Philadelphia, Pa.

DICKINSON, District Judge.

All the above proceedings were for trial purposes consolidated and heard together. The conclusion reached turns upon a question of law. Prior to the act of Congress of June 23, 1910 (Comp. St. §§ 7783-7787) we had several accepted doctrines of the admiralty law upon the faith of which those concerned with vessels dealt. One was the familiar fiction, peculiar to the law maritime, that a vessel is an animate, sensate, and responsible...

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