UNITED STATES v. SANDRA & DENNIS FISHING CORP.

No. 6772.

372 F.2d 189 (1967)

UNITED STATES of America, Petitioner, Appellant, v. SANDRA & DENNIS FISHING CORP. et al., Claimants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Gwatkin, III, Atty., Dept. of Justice, with whom J. William Doolittle, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Paul F. Markham, U. S. Atty., and Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, were on brief, for appellant.

Morris D. Katz, Boston, Mass., with whom Harry Kisloff and George J. Dodd, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Eleanore T. McCarthy, Adm'x, and others, appellees.

John O. Parker, Boston, Mass., with whom Ely, Bartlett, Brown & Proctor, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for Sandra & Dennis Fishing Corp., appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

At 0750 on the morning1 of December 18, 1961, the Coast Guard Rescue Coordination Center in Boston received a call from the fishing vessel Barbara and Gail (hereinafter B & G) giving a position about 52 miles southeasterly of the Great Round Shoal entrance to Nantucket Sound and stating that she had lost her rudder; that the weather was good, and that she was in no immediate danger, but that she wanted to be towed...

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