CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY CO. v. JULES S. SOTTNEK CO.

No. 277, Docket 24619.

258 F.2d 85 (1958)

The CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JULES S. SOTTNEK CO., Inc., Sottnek Terminal Corporation, Defendants-Appellants and Third Party Plaintiffs, New York Dock Company, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 15, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theodore A. Kelly, New York City (Vincent E. McGowan, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Seymour Simon, New York City (Richard T. Graham and Raymond E. Stefferson, New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on the verdict of a jury by Judge Murphy, Southern District of New York, awarding the plaintiff $9,636 for damages to its scow and $383 for loss of the personal effects of its scow master caused by a fire allegedly ignited through the negligence of the defendants. A third party complaint against the New York Dock Company was dismissed and no appeal is taken from that order.

On April 24, 1951...

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