THE POCAHONTAS


28 F.Supp. 955 (1939)

THE POCAHONTAS. EAGLE TRANSPORT CO., Limited, et al. v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, S. D. New York.

June 12, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, of New York City (Robert S. Erskine, of New York City, of counsel), for libellants.

Lamar Hardy, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Charles E. Wythe, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., of counsel), for respondent.


COXE, District Judge.

These are exceptions by the libellants to so much of a report of a commissioner as disallows various items of damage claimed by the libellants. The suit is for damages sustained by the libellants' tank steamship San Tirso in a collision with the respondent's steamship Pocahontas, which occurred at the entrance to New York Harbor on Dec. 14, 1917. The trial judge held the Pocahontas solely at fault, and referred the case to a commissioner to assess...

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