ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 33, 34.

86 F.2d 201 (1936)

ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE v. UNITED STATES. ATLANTIC GULF & ORIENTAL S. S. CO., Inc., v. SAME.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

November 16, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, of New York City (Roger Siddall and Joseph Whelan, both of New York City, of counsel), for libelant Admiral Oriental Line.

Hunt, Hill & Betts (George Whitefield Betts, Jr., and Edna Rapallo, all of New York City, of counsel), for Atlantic Gulf & Oriental S. S. Co.

Lamar Hardy, U. S. Atty., of New York City (William E. Collins, Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, of counsel), for the United States.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are from decrees dismissing two libels in personam in the admiralty. In the first the libellant, the Admiral Oriental Line, alleged that it had been employed by the respondent, the Atlantic Gulf & Oriental Company, as ship's agent in the Phillipines, and had had charge of fitting out the steamship, "Elkton," on a voyage out of Pulupandan, on which she was lost with all hands in a typhoon. The "Elkton" was owned by the United...

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