Cases

HINCKS, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal in a collision case from interlocutory decrees holding Mat-ton Steamboat Co., Inc. solely responsible for an accident through its tug Edna M. Matton, exonerating the Tug Corporal Corporation from any liability, and fixing liability on Matton for damage to two barges, viz., the Dwyer No. 104, which was being pushed by the tug Matton, and the B. No. 80, which was being pushed by the tug

NYGAARD, Circuit Judge, concurring and dissenting. I join in all parts of the majority’s opinion except for part 111(A)(1). Because I believe the majority has adopted the wrong test for determining the purity of methamphetamine, I respectfully dissent from that portion of its opinion. As the majority recognizes, the Sentencing Guidelines provide two ways for s

BYERS, District Judge. In this cause the libelant seeks to recover damages in the amount of $7,000 said to have been suffered by the barge Joan Kunkel when she was being towed from a dock on the westerly shore of the Quinnipiac River at New Haven, Connecticut, to an anchorage off City Point about 1% miles below the dock, on January 31, 1945, as the result of striking ice. The tug Edna May had her i

INCH, Chief Judge. Libelant, Conners-Standard Marine Corporation, as owner of the steel tank barge Ben Tichnor instituted this suit against Oil Transfer Corporation for damages sustained by the barge between February 10, 1948 and March 10, 1948 while under charter to Oil Transfer Corporation. The charter was the ordinary oral harbor charter for an indefinite period at an agreed rate per day with a crew furnished by libelant.

255 F.2d 380 DWYER OIL TRANSPORT CO., Inc., as owner of THE Tank Barge DWYER, NO. 104, Libelant-Appellant,v.THE Tug EDNA M. MATTON, Matton Steamboat Co., Inc., Claimant-Appellant, andTHE Tug CORPORAL, Tug Corporal Corporation, Claimant-Appellee.B. NO. 80 CORPORATION, as owner of The Barge B. NO. 80, Libelant-Appellant,v.THE Tug EDNA M. MATTON, Matton Steamboat Co., Inc., Claimant-Appellant, andTug Corporal, Tug Corporal

348 Pa. Superior Ct. 17 (1985) 501 A.2d 277 Albert J. AIKENS, Richard J. Aikens, Clifford M. Aikens, Michael J. Alloe, Helen Arble, Harold E. Bailey, Eugene Baker, Martha Kay Baker, Donna J. Banyas, Fred Barton, Michael D. Bateman, Dennis Beldin, George Benec, John D. Benec, Reginald Bethune, John Bey, Harold John Blakely, Benjamin Brown, Jr., James P. Bucci, Ronald J. Bure, Alice Burgett, Sigmonda Catalone, Eiljah Chapman, Chea C

205 F.Supp. 208 (1962) The Libels in personam of Betty Marie WILLIAMS, as Administratrix of the Estate of Troy Ford Williams, Deceased; of Kenneth Philhower, as Administrator of the Estate of Harry M. Shaffer, Deceased; of Adele Giurastante, as Administratrix of the Estate of Domenic Vincent Giurastante, Deceased; of Connie Wolford, as Administratrix of the Estate of Larry Wolford, Deceased; of Edna C. Kovarick, as Administratrix of the Estate of Wilbur

Mr. JUSTICE GEORGE J. MORAN delivered the opinion of the court: The defendant, James Ransom, and a codefendant, Freddie Macklin, were indicted for the murder of Ernest Tiller. The case was tried before a jury and at the close of the State’s evidence the court directed a verdict of acquittal for Macklin. The jury subsequently fou

Brown, J. This libel was filed by the owner of the canal-boats T. M. Slaight and W. R. Wheeler to recover for the damages sustained by his boats through a collision with the steamer City of Springfield, *159in Hell Gate, between Flood rook and the Astoria shore, at about half past 4- o’clock in the afternoon of May 4, 1885. The canal-boats formed part of a tow of the ste

ELDRIDGE, Judge. This case involves a challenge to awards of punitive damages against Alexander & Alexander, an insurance broker, and *638against Mary Scheeler, one of its vice presidents. A jury awarded the punitive damages under a count alleging tortious interference with a contractual arrangement concerning insurance commissions. The jury determined that the pl

HOUGPI, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above). [1] That the tug scraped along, touching the boats (or some of them) lying one outside the other near the end of Thirty-Seventh street pier, is very likely; indeed, this ordinary harbor contact was intended. That the Edna touched the Price is more doubtful, and that any contact occurred as the Edna’s master says it did seems to us physically impo

245 S.W.2d 80 (1952) WOOD v. ROBERTSON et al. No. 42136. Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1. January 14, 1952. *81 Neale, Newman, Bradshaw, Freeman & Neale, Springfield, Fields & Low, John F. Law, Lebanon, for appellant. A. P. Stone, Jr., Sam M. Wear, Springfield, A. W. Landis, Robert L. Hyder, West Plains,

LEIBELL, District Judge. The limitation and exoneration proceeding (A 144-151) was instituted in this Southern District by the owners and charterers of the tug Mary T. Tracy. Two actions were brought by damage claimants : one in this Southern District (A142-72) by the Long Island Lighting Company, as owner of the cargo of coal aboard the coal barge Red Star No. 50, against the Tracy Towing Line, Inc., the Pennsylvania Railroa

137 F.Supp. 78 (1955) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION, Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Warner Bros. Distributing Corporation, Universal Pictures Company, Inc., United World Films, Inc., RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Columbia Pictures Corporation, Screen Gems, Inc., Defendants. No. 14354. United States District Court S. D. California, Central Division.

MOSCOWITZ, District Judge. This is a proceeding brought, by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, owner of the tug Brinton, to limit liability for claims brought against it by a number of coal boats and by owners of property in Long Beach for damages suffered in 1925. The suit arises against the railroad company for damages sustained by boats which were broken adrift from the Pennsylvania mooring stakes at South Amboy, N. J. The ra

Plaintiff in error, plaintiff below, filed suit in ejectment against defendant in error to recover possession of the SW¼ of the SE¼ of Sec. 30, Twp. 57, R. 32, Clinton County. A question of title was raised, by subsequent pleadings, by both parties and the cause concededly became one in equity to determine title. The venue was changed from Clinton County to Gentry County, where the court found that plaintiff in error had no interest in the land, but that defendant in error was the o

Appellant was convicted of murder in the first degree, and his punishment assessed at death. For some two weeks prior to September 28, 1905, J.F. Conditt resided on a rented farm about two miles from the town of Edna in Jackson County. His family consisted of himself and his wife, Mrs. Lora Conditt, and the following children: Mildred, a girl about 12 years of age, and Herschell, Jessie, Joseph and Loyd, ages respectively 10, 6 and 3, the last named being an infant about 10 months old.