The Ada

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 1918-03-13

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HOUGH, Circuit Judge. In the result announced I concur; my reasons are somewhat different. The rule that a contract, to be maritime, and therefore within admiralty jurisdiction, must be “wholly maritime,” means that the principal subject-matter of agreement gives character to the whole. This construction of the phrase was adopted by this court in The Pennsylvania, <a…

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