THE PRESIDENTE WILSON

Nos. 82, 84-87, 92.

30 F.2d 466 (1929)

THE PRESIDENTE WILSON.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

January 31, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Chandler Davis, of Gloucester, Mass., for libelant Morey.

MacInnis & Wonson, of Gloucester, Mass., for libelants White, Vogler, and Horton.

Carlton W. Wonson, of Gloucester, Mass., for libelant Calder.

Loomis & Ruebush, of New York City and Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, of Boston, Mass., for claimant.


MORTON, District Judge.

These are six libels to recover damages for deaths caused by a collision on the high seas, occurring on October 29, 1927, between the Italian steamship Presidente Wilson and the American fishing schooner Avalon, whose home port was in Massachusetts. The Avalon sank and ten of her crew were drowned. The case is here on exceptions to the libels, which raise certain formal points — which are not of much importance — and the basic...

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