THE COMET

No. 155 of 1944.

66 F.Supp. 231 (1946)

THE COMET. THE WM. FORD NICHOLS. TAYLOR et al. v. UNITED STATES et al.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

February 15, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rawle & Henderson and Harrison G. Kildare, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for libellant.

Krusen, Evans & Shaw and Thomas E. Byrne, Jr., all of Philadelphia, Pa., for respondents.


GANEY, District Judge.

This is a suit in admiralty and concerns itself with exceptions filed to the libel and supplemental libel.

The Steamship Antonin Dvorak with a cargo of steel rails had been damaged and run aground, and in order to remove them, it was necessary to secure a lighter to place them on, in order that they could be reloaded on another ship. Accordingly, the Isthmian Steamship Company, sub-agent for the War Shipping Administration, contacted...

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