PUBLICOVER v. ALCOA S. S. CO.

No. 251, Docket 20961.

168 F.2d 672 (1948)

PUBLICOVER et al. v. ALCOA S. S. CO., Inc., et al. ALCOA S. S. CO., Inc. v. PUBLICOVER et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

May 25, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Chauncey I. Clark, and Burlingham, Veeder, Clark & Hupper, all of New York City (Charles E. Wythe, and C. B. Manley O'Kelley, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee Publicover et al.

John W. Griffin, and Haight, Griffin, Deming & Gardner, of New York City (James McKown, Jr., and MacDonald Deming, both of New York City, of counsel), for S.S. Rita and Royal Norwegian Government.

Richard F. Shaw, of New York City, for claimant-appellee, Western Union Telegraph Co.

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


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The Alcoa Steamship Company, Inc., appeals from a decree in the admiralty, holding its ship, the "Alcoa Pilot," solely liable for a collision on the high seas, between herself and the four-masted schooner, "Lillian E. Kerr," owned by the libellants, Publicover and others, in which the schoner was sunk. The "Alcoa Pilot" was bound for New York through the Cape Cod Canal, in a convoy of four columns...

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