AMERICAN CO. FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE v. UNITED STATES


26 F.2d 468 (1928)

AMERICAN CO. FOR INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE v. UNITED STATES. NEW YORK BUTCHERS' DRESSED MEAT CO. v. SAME.

District Court, S. D. New York.

May 2, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar & Jones, of New York City (T. Catesby Jones and Ezra G. Benedict Fox, both of New York City, of counsel), for libelants.

Charles E. Tuttle, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Horace M. Gray, Sp. Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, of counsel), for the United States.


WINSLOW, District Judge.

These cases are representative of twenty-one actions in admiralty against the United States, as owner of the West Calumb, for damage to cargo laden on board that vessel at Greenport, Brooklyn, N. Y., in December, 1922, and January, 1923. By stipulation, the same evidence applies to all of the suits.

The West Calumb left her loading berth in Brooklyn at 10:02 on the morning of January 12, 1923, with miscellaneous cargo, bound for the...

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