PALMER v. UNITED STATES


85 F.Supp. 764 (1949)

PALMER et al. v. UNITED STATES. McGRATH v. SOUTH ATLANTIC S. S. LINE.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

September 8, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob Rassner, New York City (Bertram J. Dembo, New York City, of counsel), for libelants.

John F. X. McGohey, United States Attorney, New York City (Edward R. Downing, Sp. Atty., Department of Justice, Brooklyn, N. Y., Martin J. Norris, Sp. Asst. to U. S. Atty., New York City, of counsel), for respondent United States.


S. H. KAUFMAN, District Judge.

This libel is brought under the Suits in Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 741 et seq., for injuries sustained by libelants Bartin and Champlin and for the death of libelants Palmer's and Funken's intestates when the Liberty ship SS Henry Bacon was torpedoed by enemy bombers and sank in the waters of the north Atlantic on February 23, 1945.

It was consolidated at the trial with the libel in the case of Flora Haviland McGrath...

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