CORNEC v. BALTIMORE & O. R. CO.

No. 3003.

48 F.2d 497 (1931)

CORNEC et al. v. BALTIMORE & O. R. CO. et al. The RICHELIEU.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 13, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Forbes and John H. Skeen, both of Baltimore, Md., and John C. Prizer, of New York City (Henry L. Wortche, of Baltimore, Md., Barry, Wainwright, Thacher & Symmers, of New York City, Louis J. Sagner, L. Wethered Barroll, Jacob E. Cohen, Glick & Schlossberg, Harry H. Goldberg, Harry O. Levin, Briscoe & Jones, Herbert R. O'Conor, William H. Lawrence, and George T. Mister, all of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellants.

George W. P. Whip, of Baltimore, Md. (Duncan K. Brent, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellee Baltimore & O. R. Co.

Emory H. Niles, of Baltimore, Md., and William P. Hurley, of Newark, N. J., for appellee Lewis Mfg. Co.

Before PARKER and NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judges, and GRONER, District Judge.


PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in admiralty dismissing libels filed against the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company for the recovery of damages sustained as the result of a pitch dust explosion alleged to have been due to its negligence. The libels were filed against the railroad company, which was engaged at the time of the explosion in loading a cargo of pitch into the French barque Richelieu. They were filed by the master in behalf of...

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