UNITED STATES STEEL PRODUCTS CO. v. AMERICAN & FOREIGN INS. CO.

No. 285.

82 F.2d 752 (1936)

UNITED STATES STEEL PRODUCTS CO. v. AMERICAN & FOREIGN INS. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 9, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City (D. Roger Englar, Henry N. Longley, and Alfred Ogden, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann and William H. McGrann, all of New York City, for appellee.

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


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the respondents from a decree in the admiralty in a suit in personam against underwriters for general average contribution. The libellant is the owner of the ship, "Steel Scientist," which went ashore in the Caribbean on the little islet of Farallon Sucio, a few miles off the coast of Panama and twenty-four miles from the Colon breakwater, on April 13, 1926. She was floated and most of the cargo eventually delivered in...

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