THE RICHELIEU


27 F.2d 960 (1928)

THE RICHELIEU. CORNEC v. BALTIMORE & O. R. CO.

District Court, D. Maryland.

July 2, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Forbes, of Baltimore, Md., for libelant Cornec.

Lord & Whip and Duncan K. Brent, all of Baltimore, Md. (George W. P. Whip, of Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for respondent Baltimore & O. R. Co.

Niles, Barton, Morrow & Yost, of Baltimore, Md., and William P. Hurley, of Newark, N. J. (Emory H. Niles, of Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for respondent F. J. Lewis Mfg. Co.

Glick & Schlossberg, of Baltimore, Md., for libelant Blake.

Harry O. Levin, of Baltimore, Md., for libelants Savage and others.

Henry L. Wortche, of Baltimore, Md., for libelants Le Feuvre and others.

Harry H. Goldberg and Harry Perlin, both of Baltimore, Md., for libelants Stevenson and others.

Wm. H. Lawrence and George T. Mister, both of Baltimore, Md., for libelants Buck and others.

Briscoe & Jones, of Leonardtown, Md., for libelant Howe.


WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

The question in this case is as to the liability for an explosion which occurred on the French barque Richelieu while lying at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company's coal piers, Curtis Bay, Baltimore, on the late afternoon of January 4, 1927, while she was being loaded with a cargo of pitch. As a result of the explosion a fire was propagated throughout the 'tween-decks and lower hold...

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