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PETITION OF ISBRANDTSEN COMPANY

No. 109, Docket 22503.

201 F.2d 281 (1953)

Petition of ISBRANDTSEN COMPANY, Inc. ISBRANDTSEN CO., Inc. v. UNITED STATES. The EDMUND FANNING.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 15, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lord, Day & Lord, New York City, Thomas F. Daly and Henry C. Blackiston, Jr., New York City, Advocates for Isbrandtsen Co., Inc., petitioner-appellant.

Myles J. Lane, U. S. Atty., New York City, Edward L. Smith, Erwin W. Rossuck and Walter L. Hopkins, Attys. Department of Justice, New York City, Advocates, for United States, appellee.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CLARK and FRANK, Circuit Judges.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

In September 1947 Isbrandtsen Company, Inc., a domestic corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York (hereinafter called Isbrandtsen) filed a petition in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking exoneration under the Fire Statute, 46 U.S.C.A. § 182, from liability for a fire on board the Liberty Vessel S. S. Edmund Fanning, which Isbrandtsen had chartered from its owner, the...

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