STATE v. A/S NYE KRISTIANBORG

No. 3117.

84 F.Supp. 775 (1949)

STATE, to Use of MAINES et al. v. A/S NYE KRISTIANBORG et al.

United States District Court D. Maryland.

July 15, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol C. Berenholtz, Baltimore, Md., Louis Silberstein, Baltimore, Md., for libellants.

Robert W. Williams (of Ober, Williams, Grimes & Stinson), Baltimore, Md., for respondents.


CHESNUT, District Judge.

The Maryland Lord Campbell's Act, Maryland Code, art. 67, §§ 1-5 was again amended by chapter 742 of the Maryland Acts of 1949. The amendment, in effect, for the first time imposes liability in rem on a vessel for a wrongful act, neglect or default which causes the death of a person under circumstances where the vessel would have been liable to the person injured if he had survived. The exceptions to the libel in rem in the instant...

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