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EARLE & STODDART v. WILSON LINE

No. 20.

287 U.S. 420 (1932)

53 S.Ct. 200

77 L.Ed. 403

EARLE & STODDART, INC., ET AL. v. ELLERMAN'S WILSON LINE, LTD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 12, 1932.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T. Catesby Jones, with whom Messrs. D. Roger Englar and James W. Ryan were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Cletus Keating, with whom Messrs. L. De Grove Potter, James H. Herbert, and Richard L. Sullivan were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Earle and Stoddart, Incorporated, and other owners of cargo shipped on the steamship Galileo, sued her owner and operator, Ellerman's Wilson Line, Limited, in the federal court for southern New York, for breach of contract to deliver at destination. The defendant pleaded in bar the fire statute, which provides: "No owner of any vessel shall be liable to answer...

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