CALMAR S. S. CORP. v. UNITED STATES


103 F.Supp. 243 (1951)

CALMAR S. S. CORP. v. UNITED STATES. CALMAR S. S. CORP. v. SCOTT et al.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

May 25, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, New York City, proctors for libelant; Edwin S. Murphy, Ira A. Campbell, and Helen C. Cunningham, New York City, of counsel.

Irving H. Saypol, U. S. Atty., New York City, proctor for respondent United States; Edward L. Smith and John A. Montgomery, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

Mendes & Mount, New York City, proctors for respondents Scott, etc.; Russell T. Mount and Walter B. Hall, New York City, of counsel.


RYAN, District Judge.

These two suits brought in the admiralty by Calmar Steamship Corporation, as owner of the S.S. Portmar, arise out of the voyage of that vessel from San Francisco which began on November 28, 1941. On that voyage she was damaged by Japanese air attacks while in the Timor Sea on February 15 and 16, 1942, and in the harbor of Port Darwin, Australia, on February 19, 1942, she was subsequently beached after these attacks near Darwin.

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