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PORTER v. BANK LINE

17 F.2d 513 (1927)

PORTER et al. v. BANK LINE, Limited, and three other cases. THE POLERIC.

District Court, E. D. Virginia.

January 28, 1927.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hughes, Little & Seawell, of Norfolk, Va., for all libelants.

Bigham, Englar & Jones, of New York City, for libelants Harry G. Porter, William F. Malcolm & Co., and others.

Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, of New York City, for libelants Rogers-Pyatt Shellac Co. and Riegel Sack Co.

Kirlin, Woolsey, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City, and Baird, White & Lanning, of Norfolk, Va., for respondent Bank Line, Limited.

GRONER, District Judge.

These proceedings have been brought by 46 libelants against the Bank Line, Limited, in personam, as owner of the British steamship Poleric, to recover for loss of or damage to cargo shipped upon the vessel at Calcutta in September and October, 1920, to be delivered at Boston and New York.

The vessel put into the Azores during heavy weather, and, after a delay of six weeks, making temporary repairs, was about to sail, when fire broke...

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