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HYMAN v. POTTBERG'S EX'RS

No. 209.

101 F.2d 262 (1939)

HYMAN et al. v. POTTBERG'S EX'RS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

January 23, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adele I. Springer and John Tilney Carpenter, both of New York City, for appellants.

George Whitefield Betts, Jr., and Oscar R. Houston, both of New York City, for appellees.

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

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This cause comes up upon appeal from a decree in the admiralty, denying the application of certain claimants to a fund, whom we shall call the plaintiffs, to vacate or reduce awards made to certain other claimants. All claimants to the fund were either passengers, or owners of chattels, upon the S. S. "Morro Castle", which burned, off the Jersey Coast, on the evening of September 8, 1934. The owner and the charterer of the ship filed a joint...

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