LUCKENBACH S. S. CO. v. UNITED STATES


67 F.Supp. 521 (1945)

LUCKENBACH S. S. CO., Inc., v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. THE MATHEW LUCKENBACH et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

February 7, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper, of New York City (Chauncey I. Clark and A. Howard Neely, both of New York City, of counsel), for Luckenbach Steamship Co., Inc., and the Mathew Luckenbach.

John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Alfred T. Cluff, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., of New York City, of counsel), for the United States.


MANDELBAUM, District Judge.

These are two actions in Admiralty, by way of cross-libels, which deal with a collision on October 21, 1942, between the Mathew Luckenbach, hereinafter called "Mathew," a single screw steel freighter, 450 feet long, owned and operated by the Luckenbach Steamship Company, Inc., carrying a cargo of steel and army supplies, and the "Zacapa," a single screw steam freighter, 394 feet long, owned by the United Fruit Company, but operated by the...

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