Court Opinion

ID: 5388877
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 09:39:25.228022+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:16.416330
License: Public Domain

Judgment affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: We construe the charter agreement between the Oil Transfer Corporation and the Sears Navigation Company, Inc., as a demise charter. (See United States v. Shea, 152 U. S. 178; Hust v. Moore-McGormack Lines, 328 U. S. 707, and Muscelli v. Frederick Starr Contr. Co., 296 N. Y. 330, 334.) All concur. (Appeal from a judgment dismissing the complaint as to defendant Sears Navigation Co., in an action for damages for claimed negligence by owner of a barge.) Present — Taylor, P. J., McCurn, Vaughan, Piper and Wheeler, JJ. [See post, p. 1022.]