NOBLE v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES

Nos. 50-55, 50-28, 50-9, 50-15, 50-16.

96 F.Supp. 369 (1951)

NOBLE v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, Inc. SCHLUTER v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, Inc. DECKER et al. v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, Inc. GORTON PEW FISHERIES COMPANY, LIMITED v. MOORE-McCORMACK LINES, Inc. THE CORINTHIAN.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

March 9, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick W. Ryan, Lynn, Mass., for plaintiff Noble.

Harry Kisloff, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff Schluter.

John O. Parker and Ely, Bartlett, Thompson & Brown, all of Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs Decker et al.

Arthur J. Santry, Putnam, Bell, Dutch & Santry, Sumner H. Babcock, Joseph P. Rooney, and Paul V. Power, all of Boston, Mass., for plaintiff Gordon Pew Fisheries Co., Ltd.

Thomas H. Walsh, Boston, Mass., for Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.


SWEENEY, Chief Judge.

All of the above actions, which grew out of a collision between the fishing vessel Corinthian and the S. S. Mormacfir, were consolidated for trial. The first three listed above are suits to recover under the Death on the High Seas statute, 46 U.S. C.A. § 761 et seq., and all of them also contain a second count for conscious suffering. To these second counts the respondent has filed exceptions. In the other two actions, the libellant seeks...

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