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UNITED STATES v. ROBERT STEWARD & SONS

No. 196, Docket 20911.

167 F.2d 308 (1948)

UNITED STATES et al. v. ROBERT STEWARD & SONS, LIMITED, et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 29, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Crandall, of New York City, J. Vincent Keogh, U. S. Atty., of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Hunt, Hill & Betts, of New City (Robert M. Donohue, of New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

William G. Symmers and Dow & Symmers, all of New York City (Frederick Fish and John S. Stillman, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, SWAN and FRANK, Circuit Judges.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree in the admiralty, dismissing the petition of the United States, as owner, and of the Black Diamond Steamship Corporation, as "bareboat" charterer, to limit their liability, arising out of a collision in Belgian waters, between their ship and a British steamer. The claimants excepted to the petition, whose allegations must therefore be taken as true, and the substance of which is as follows, so far as they are...

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