SUCCESSORS DE ESMORIS & CO. v. WHITNEY & BODDEN SHIPPING CO.


39 F.2d 191 (1930)

SUCCESSORS DE ESMORIS & CO. v. WHITNEY & BODDEN SHIPPING CO., Inc.

District Court, S. D. Alabama.

March 20, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Smith & Johnston, of Mobile, Ala., for libelant.

Pillans, Cowley & Gresham, of Mobile, Ala., for respondents.


ERVIN, District Judge.

The question for determination in this case is whether or not E. D. Flyn Export Company owning a 57/128 interest in the schooner Resolute is entitled to take advantage of the limitation of liability provided for in section 18 of the Act of June 26, 1884 (46 USCA § 189), providing that the individual liability of the shipowner shall be limited to the proportion of any or all debts that his individual share bears to the whole.

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