admiralty contribution between mutually-faulting vessels
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From 204 U.S. 220 - Erie Railroad Company v. Erie Western Transportation Company · 1907Most cited · 137 citing opinions
the admiralty rule in this country ... [is] that the division of damages extends to what one of the parties pays to the owners of cargo on board the other. ... The right to the division of the latter element does not stand on subrogation, but arises directly from the tort.