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PETITION OF COLONIAL TRUST COMPANY

No. 4530.

124 F.Supp. 73 (1954)

In the Matter of the Petition of the COLONIAL TRUST COMPANY and Elizabeth Deborah Steele Elton, as owners of the pleasure yacht, "Charlotte" her engines, etc. in a cause of exoneration from or limitation of liability.

United States District Court D. Connecticut, Admiralty Division.

September 17, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter F. Torrance, Jr., Carmody & Torrance, Waterbury, Conn., for petitioner.

John J. Kinney, Jr., New Haven, Conn., and Frederick R. Houde, Branford, Conn., for claimant.

ANDERSON, District Judge.

The parties, by stipulation, have presented to the court a statement of facts and three questions to be answered in relation to them. These questions are: (1) does admiralty jurisdiction apply; (2) is the Colonial Trust Company, as trustee, an owner within the meaning of the provisions of the limitation of liability statute 46 U.S.C.A. § 183(a); and (3) is the petitioner Mrs. Elizabeth Deborah Steele Elton an "owner" within the provisions...

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