AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY CO. v. BRASSERT

No. 4710.

61 F.2d 162 (1932)

AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY CO. v. BRASSERT.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 13, 1932.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Hardy and Noah A. Stancliffe, both of New York City, and John R. Cochran, Leonard F. Martin, and Paul R. Conaghan, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

Roy O. West, Percy B. Eckhart, and Lewis C. Jesseph, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before ALSCHULER, EVANS, and SPARKS, Circuit Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether the libel states sufficient facts to entitle appellant to limit its liability, if there be any liability.

In support of the trial court's ruling that the facts pleaded are not sufficient for that purpose, appellee relies upon three propositions: (1) At the time the boat was destroyed appellant was not the owner thereof within the meaning of the word "owner" as used in the statutes upon...

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