The Milwaukee Bridge’s Empirical Analysis
291 F. 711 · 1922
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1962
1 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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““The exception on the score of jurisdiction is not good either. If the discharge did not terminate at the tackles, it was none the less maritime till it did terminate, however much more the contract of carriage required, because in such matters the carriage includes the discharge, though that embrace acts done ashore. The Scotia (D.C.) 35 Fed. 916 ; The Hattie N. Bain (D. C.) 20 Fed. 389 ; The Gilbert Knapp (D.C.) 37 Fed. 209 . If the libelant recovers, it will be upon a maritime contract, because that is all that it has pleaded, and its recovery must be secundum allegata. If the defense be true, and the contract terminated before any damage occurred, the libelant cannot therefore hold the respondents any more than the claimant for subsequent and independent loss, even though they might be responsible for it upon other pleadings in this or in another court. The petition does not enlarge the libelant’s case, but only serves to throw upon- the respondents the loss, if a recovery can be had against the claimant. Therefore the case is not one where the claimant tries to interject into the litigation an independent nonmaritime controversy. “The exception is overruled.” (p. 712)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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