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LAURO v. UNITED STATES

No. 266, Docket 20976.

168 F.2d 714 (1948)

LAURO v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 4, 1948.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Rassner, of New York City (Jack Steinman, of New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Raymond Parmer, of New York City, and J. Vincent Keogh, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating and Charles N. Fiddler, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

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

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The libellant appeals from a decree in the admiralty upon a libel against the United States, filed under the Public Vessels Act,1 which awarded damages for the death of her husband, a stevedore, while at work upon a public vessel of the United States. The award was $25,000, to which the decree now before us added interest at four per cent from October 5, 1945, the date of an earlier decree. Upon the libellant's...

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