BREWER & CO. v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES


59 F.Supp. 796 (1944)

C. BREWER & CO., Limited, et al. v. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

November 24, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City (John W. R. Zisgen, of New York City, of counsel), for libelants.

Hardin, Hess & Eder, of New York City (Monroe Collenburg, of New York City, of counsel), for respondents.


HULBERT, District Judge.

Libelants sue in personam in Admiralty joining five respondents "in causes of contract and recovery of prepaid freight charges" covering shipments of cargoes by the S/S Sirdhana, owned by the British India Steam Navigation, Ltd., from Calcutta and Singapore to Hong Kong, there to be transhipped by a vessel of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company to Vancouver, B. C. The Sirdhana was sunk by a mine before her arrival at Hong Kong and her cargo...

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