NEW ENGLAND NEWSPAPER PUB. CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 93.

18 F.Supp. 674 (1937)

NEW ENGLAND NEWSPAPER PUB. CO. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 11, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., for New England Newspaper Pub. Co., libelant.

Francis J. W. Ford, U. S. Atty. of Boston, Mass. (Robert W. Meserve, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for the United States.

Thomas H. Mahony and Walter F. Levis, both of Boston, Mass., for F. Jarka Co., Inc., impleaded respondent.

Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, of Boston, Mass. (A. J. Santry and F. Fish, both of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for E. S. Booth, impleaded respondent.

Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry of Boston, Mass. (A. J. Santry and F. Fish, both of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for William S. Booth, executor, impleaded respondent.


BREWSTER, District Judge.

This libel is brought against the United States to recover for damages to a shipment of rolls of newsprint which were carried from Hamburg to Boston in December, 1926, and January, 1927, on the steamship West Campgaw and the steamship West Harcuvar. The stevedores who discharged the cargoes at Boston are the impleaded respondents.

Statement of Facts.

The shipments of newsprint originated in Hallstavik, Sweden, and were carried...

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