KIMES v. UNITED STATES

No. 196, Docket 22573.

207 F.2d 60 (1953)

KIMES et al. v. UNITED STATES et al. THE WILLIAM M. MEREDITH.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 14, 1953.

August 11, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Gyory, New York City (Silas B. Axtell, New York City, on the brief), for libelants-appellants.

Martin J. Norris, Atty., Dept. of Justice, New York City (Myles J. Lane, U. S. Atty., J. Edward Lumbard, U. S. Atty., and William H. Postner, Atty., Dept. of Justice, all of New York City, on the brief), for respondents-appellees.

Before SWAN, Chief Judge, and CLARK and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


On Motion for Allowance of Interest.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for a salvage award by the wartime crew of one United States Government-owned-and-operated Liberty ship for services rendered in salving cargo from another such vessel traveling in the same convoy. A brief summary of the facts stipulated by the parties and found by the district court will suffice here. The S. S. Thomas G. Masaryk, carrying a lend-lease cargo of war and industrial...

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