IN RE PETITION OF OSKAR TIEDEMANN & COMPANY

No. 12556.

259 F.2d 605 (1958)

Matter of the Petition of OSKAR TIEDEMANN & COMPANY For Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability. Theodora Andanar, Widow of Thomas Andanar, Deceased, Etc., et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided September 26, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham E. Freedman, Philadelphia, Pa. (Joseph Weiner, Freedman, Landy & Lorry, Harold Leshem, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants.

T. E. Byrne, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. (James R. Morford, Wilmington, Del., Krusen, Evans & Shaw, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before MARIS, GOODRICH and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal concerns the construction of Admiralty Practice Rule 54, 28 U.S.C. p. 118.

On March 7, 1957, the Naval tanker USNS Mission San Francisco, operated by Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation, under a contract with the Military Sea Transportation Service, an agency of the United States Navy, and the S.S. Elna II, owned and operated by Oskar Tiedemann and Company, a Liberian corporation, were in collision...

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