ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES


99 F.Supp. 767 (1951)

ANGLO-AMERICAN OIL CO., Ltd. v. UNITED STATES and Eight other Cases. The GEORGE W. McKNIGHT. The HOWARD L. GIBSON. The STEPHEN T. MATHER.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

June 14, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox & Keating, New York City (Ira A. Campbell, Eugene F. Gilligan and Raymond T. Greene, New York City, of counsel), for libelant Anglo-American Oil Co.

Irving H. Saypol, United States Atty., New York City (Alfred T. Cluff, Special Asst. to the Atty. Gen., of counsel), for the United States, owner of The Howard L. Gibson.

Hunt, Hill & Betts, New York City, of counsel for U. S. Atty. (George Whitefield Betts, and Helen F. Tuohy, New York City, of counsel), for the United States as owner of The Stephen T. Mather.

Atkins & Weymar, New York City (Horace T. Atkins, New York City, of counsel), for libelant Asbury McIntosh, Administrator of Estate of Gerald Berl Grove.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City (Charles A. Van Hagen, New York City, of counsel), for libelants Firemen's Fund Ins. Co., et al.

Mendes & Mount, New York City (H. W. Dieck, New York City, of counsel), for Borax Consolidated, Ltd.


COXE, District Judge.

These suits grow out of a collision in the North Atlantic on the night of October 14, 1944, between the Liberty ship "Howard L. Gibson", owned and operated by the United States, and the "George W. McKnight", a British merchant tanker, owned and operated by Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd., a British corporation. Another United States vessel, the Liberty ship "Stephen T. Mather", due to the failure of her gyro compass, strayed from her assigned position...

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