THE JEAN JADOT

No. 12950.

2 F.Supp. 942 (1933)

THE JEAN JADOT. In re COMPAGNIE MARITIME BELGE (LLOYD ROYAL) S. A.

District Court, E. D. New York.

January 3, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, of New York City (W. H. McGrann and J. Harvey Turnure, both of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

Rumsey & Morgan, of New York City, and Hale & Dorr and Burnham, Bingham, Gould & Murphy, all of Boston, Mass. (Albert T. Gould, of Boston, Mass., Mark W. Maclay and Ralph W. Brown, both of New York City, and Grafton L. Wilson, of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for the Eleanor Nickerson, Inc., and other claimants.

Lester B. Donahue and Purrington & McConnell, all of New York City, Whalen & Christiansen, of Boston, Mass., and W. Henry Finnegan, of Malden, Mass. (Lester B. Donahue and Frank J. McConnell, both of New York City, Sylvester F. Whalen and A. F. Christiansen, both of Boston, Mass., and W. Henry Finnegan, of Malden, Mass., of counsel), for various claimants.

Halpert & Burger, of New York City, and Harry Kisloff, of Boston, Mass. (Harry Kisloff, of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for various claimants.


BYERS, District Judge.

The owner of the Belgian steamship Jean Jadot seeks limitation of and exemption from liability arising from the sinking of the fishing schooner Eleanor Nickerson out of Boston, which occurred on February 5, 1932, near La Have Bank off the coast of Nova Scotia.

The Jadot struck the Nickerson forward of the starboard quarter, and cut through entirely, so that the stern of the schooner was sheered off in a diagonal running from the point...

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