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CHARBONNIER v. UNITED STATES

No. 824.

45 F.2d 166 (1929)

CHARBONNIER et al. v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. CHARBONNIER et al.

District Court, E. D. South Carolina.

July 12, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, T. C. Jones, and W. J. Nunnally, Jr., all of New York City, and Alfred Huger (of Huger, Wilbur, Miller & Mouzon), of Charleston, S. C., for libelants and cross-respondents.

J. D. E. Meyer, U. S. Atty., of Charleston, S. C., and Burlingham, Veeder, Masten & Fearey, R. H. Hupper, and W. J. Dean, all of New York City, for respondent and cross-libelant.

ERNEST F. COCHRAN, District Judge.

These two suits arise out of a fire which happened on the Shipping Board steamer Pinellas at Charleston on the night of June 15, 1921, whereby her cargo of cotton was damaged by fire and by water used to extinguish the fire. The first suit is brought under the Suits in Admiralty Act (46 USCA §§ 741-752) by the owners of the cargo to recover from the United States the cargo damages. The second suit is a cross-libel brought...

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