ALASKA S. S. CO. v. AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN S. S. CO.

No. 15094.

75 F.Supp. 701 (1947)

ALASKA S. S. CO. v. AMERICAN-HAWAIIAN S. S. CO. THE FENN VICTORY.

District Court, W. D. Washington, N. D.

October 3, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bogle, Bogle & Gates and Claude E. Wakefield, all of Seattle, Wash., for libelant.

Dorr, Cooper & Hayes and Frederick W. Dorr, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Evans, McLaren, Lane, Powell & Beeks, and William T. Beeks, all of Seattle, Wash., for respondent.


BOWEN, District Judge.

In this case a libel in rem in Admiralty was filed by the Alaska Steamship Company against the Steamship Fenn Victory, a merchant vessel owned by the United States Maritime Commission but operated under bare boat charter by the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company, a private corporation. Also the latter company was joined as a party respondent in an action in personam. That respondent filed a libel release bond thereby releasing the vessel from...

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