Case ID: f-supp_67/html/0265-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CONGER, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE TUG KEVIN MORAN, Inc. THE MARGOT MORAN.
    District Court, S. D. Now York.
    March 20, 1946.
    Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper, of New York City (Chauncey I. Clark, and Charles E. Wythe, both of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.
    Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City, and Rawle & Henderson, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Curtis Bay Towing Co., of Pennsylvania, owner of Tug Hercules, claimant, in support of motion.
    Hill, Rivkins & Middleton, of New York City, for Ritner K. Walling, trading as Oliver Transportation Co., claimant.
    Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, for claimant D. T. Sheridan.
    Macldin, Brown, Lenahan & Speer, of New York City, for claimant James Hughes, Inc.
   CONGER, District Judge.

Motion denied.

I am not unmindful of The Aquitania, 2 Cir., 20 F.2d 457, 459. In that case the petition for limitation of liability was filed four years after the accident. The court there said: “Upon the facts here disclosed— that the amount of the claims is small compared with the value of the ship and that all possible claims have been received [the italicizing is mine]—the appellant is not enlitied to limit its liability as petitioned for * * *”

In this case I can’t say with reasonable certainty that all possible claims have been received. There still is a possibility that claims for personal injury may be made as well as claims for cargo damage.

Settle order on notice.