THE TRONTOLITE

No. 1270.

7 F.2d 401 (1925)

THE TRONTOLITE. IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED v. UNITED STATES. MEXICAN GULF OIL CO. v. IMPERIAL OIL LIMITED et al.

District Court, D. Maryland.

August 8, 1925.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace T. Atkins, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Clinton M. Hester, Admiralty Atty., U. S. Shipping Board, of Washington, D. C. (J. Frank Staley, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and A. W. W. Woodcock, U. S. Atty., of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for the United States.

Burlingham, Veeder, Masten & Fearey, of New York City (Thomas H. Middleton, of New York City, and George W. P. Whip, of Baltimore, Md., of counsel), for Mexican Gulf Oil Co.

Kirlin, Woolsey, Campbell, Hickox & Keating and W. H. McGrann, all of New York City, and Robert W. Williams, of Baltimore, Md. (J. H. Turnure, of New York City, on the brief), for Imperial Oil Limited and the Trontolite.


SOPER, District Judge.

This controversy arises out of an accident that occurred at the dock of the Mexican Gulf Oil Company in the Panuco river, Tampico, Mexico, on the 23d day of September, 1922. Two suits are involved. The first libel was filed on October 2, 1922, by Imperial Oil Limited, owner of the steamship Trontolite, against the United States, as owner of the steamship Halsey, in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas, and...

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