Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc. v. Hicks

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• explaining that a corporate shipowner is entitled to limitation if it overcomes the “presumption[s] . . . that” (1) “its officers and managers had actual knowledge,” and (2
• deeming owner to have privity or knowledge because owner actually knew vessel was unseaworthy to run through ice and would have known of icy conditions on the river the morning of the accident “if he had used reasonable diligence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).