PETITION OF NORTH ATLANTIC TRANSPORT CO.


80 F.Supp. 308 (1948)

Petition of NORTH ATLANTIC TRANSPORT CO., Inc. THE CHAGRES. Petition of UNITED STATES. THE REIGH COUNT.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 25, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. X. McGohey, U. S. Atty., of New York City (George C. Sprague, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and Allan A. Baillie, Sp. Atty., of New York City, of counsel), for the United States.

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, of New York City (Robert S. Erskine and John F. Gerity, both of New York City, of counsel), for the Chagres.


LEIBELL, District Judge.

These proceedings in Admiralty arose out of a collision in a fog off the coast of Newfoundland, not far from Halifax, between the S. S. Reigh Count and the S. S. Chagres at about 4:20 on the afternoon of June 5, 1943. The Chagres was damaged and the Reigh Count was sunk with her cargo. Both vessels were members of a convoy which was supposed to be proceeding in a single line to a point where, weather permitting, the convoy was to form up on...

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