HARTFORD ACCIDENT CO. v. SOU. PACIFIC

No. 45.

273 U.S. 207 (1927)

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Neethe, with whom Mr. Edwin C. Brandenburg was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Roscoe H. Hupper, with whom Messrs. W.T. Armstrong and W.E. Cranford were on the brief, for respondents.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

The National Oil Transport Company, the owner of wooden oil tank barge Bolikow, filed a libel in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas against the Southern Pacific Company, alleging: that the Bolikow, made fast to a dock in the harbor of the city of Galveston, was laden with a cargo of crude oil from which a large part had...

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