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UNITED STATES LINES CO. v. THE OCEAN VAGRANT

Nos. 128, October Term, 1949, 21517.

179 F.2d 495 (1950)

UNITED STATES LINES CO. v. THE OCEAN VAGRANT. BRITISH MINISTRY OF WAR TRANSPORT v. THE CHAGRES.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1950.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, New York City, for Libellant-Appellant United States Lines Company; John F. Gerity, New York City, Advocate.

H. G. Morison, Assistant Attorney General; Irving H. Saypol, United States Attorney, New York City, and Alfred T. Cluff, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, for Cross-libellant British Ministry of War Transport.

Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CHASE and FRANK, Circuit Judges.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The libel and cross-libel sought respectively to recover damages arising through a collision between the S. S. Ocean Vagrant, owned by the British Ministry of War Transport, and the S. S. Chagres, owned by the United States Lines Company. The trial court ordered the libel and cross-libel consolidated for the purpose of the decree and in its decree adjudged that the Chagres and the Ocean Vagrant were each at fault for the collision...

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