STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY v. UNITED STATES


92 F.Supp. 696 (1950)

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW JERSEY. THE S. S. ESSO CHARLESTON. THE S. S. THOMAS W. HYDE.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 14, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, New York City (Edwin S. Murphy, Raymond T. Greene, and Walter L. Hopkins, all of New York City, of counsel), for libelant and cross-respondent.

Irving H. Saypol, United States Attorney, New York City (Louis E. Greco, Attorney, Department of Justice, New York City, and Rowland F. Schlegel, New York City, of counsel), for respondent and cross-libelant.


LEIBELL, District Judge.

The above cross-actions in Admiralty were instituted as the result of a collision between the S.S. Thomas W. Hyde and the S.S. Esso Charleston in Oran Bay, North Africa, April 30, 1944. In A. 142-211 the Standard Oil Company alleges two causes of action; the first for collision damages and the second for war risk insurance. In A. 146-59 the United States pleads a cause of action for collision damages and the Standard Oil Company claims a set...

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