DUNN v. WHEELER SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION

Nos. 19119, 19120.

86 F.Supp. 659 (1949)

DUNN et al. v. WHEELER SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION et al. JACKMAN et al. v. WHEELER SHIPBUILDING CORPORATION et al.

United States District Court E. D. New York.

October 21, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Engelman, New York City, proctor for libellants.

Alexander & Ash, New York City, proctors for Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation and William A. Boyd, its Trustee (Edward Ash, Sidney A. Schwartz, and Joseph A. Calamari, New York City, Advocates).


BYERS, District Judge.

Hearing on exceptions to libels in two personam causes; the pleadings are in the same form and the exceptions can be disposed of in one opinion.

The causes are under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 761, and are based upon the assertion that several members of the crew of the trawler BELLE were lost at sea on January 9, 1947, when she capsized and sank.

It is alleged that the disaster was due to the fact that...

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