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SOCIETE DES CHARGEURS DE L'OUEST, ETC. v. UNITED STATES

43 F.2d 125 (1930)

SOCIETE DES CHARGEURS DE L'OUEST SOCIETE ANONYME v. UNITED STATES. MORINEAUX v. SAME. THE BASSE INDRE. THE HOUSATONIC.

District Court, S. D. New York.

August 7, 1930.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, Oscar R. Houston and William J. Nunnally, Jr., both of New York City, of counsel), for libelants.

Charles H. Tuttle, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Horace M. Gray, of New York City, and F. Leo Shea, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for respondent and cross-libelant.

WOOLSEY, District Judge.

I hold both the Housatonic and the Basse Indre to blame for the collision hereinafter described.

I. The jurisdiction of this court in this suit is based on a special act of Congress, Private Law No. 43, enacted by the Sixty-Ninth Congress in its First Session and approved by the President on May 7, 1926 (44 Stat. 1470).

The necessity for a special act to found jurisdiction was due to the decision in the case of The Western...

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