Petition of Klarman
Decision Date | 19 December 1968 |
Docket Number | No. 4788.,4788. |
Citation | 295 F. Supp. 1021 |
Court | U.S. District Court — District of Connecticut |
Parties | Petition of Howard KLARMAN, 14 Harbor Road, Westport, Connecticut, owner of the SLOOP FLING, her engines, etc., for exoneration from or limitation of liability, civil and maritime. |
Frederick L. Comley and Dion W. Moore, of Pullman, Comley, Bradley & Reeves, Bridgeport, Conn., for petitioner Howard Klarman.
Robert L. Julianelle and Leonard A. Schine, Bridgeport, Conn., for claimant Rose Santini.
David B. Beizer, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Conn., Hartford, Conn., for claimant State of Connecticut.
Robert K. Marzik, Stratford, Conn., for third-party defendants, Town of Westport and Frederick Kellogg, Jr.
Claimant, Rose Santini, having moved, pursuant to Rule 56, Fed.R.Civ.P., for summary judgment dismissing the petition of a vessel owner who seeks exoneration from or limitation of liability pursuant to 46 U.S.C. § 183(a); and
The Court having received and considered the motions, pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, briefs and all papers on file, and having heard oral argument by counsel on November 4, 1968; and
The Court being of the opinion that claimant Santini's motion for summary judgment should be denied for the reasons that:1
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