UNITED STATES of America, owner of THE U.S.S. RUCHAMKIN, Libellant,
v.
THE S.S. WASHINGTON, her engines, etc., Texas Company, etc., Respondent.
TEXAS COMPANY, owner of The Tanker Washington, Libellant,
v.
UNITED STATES of America, owner of The U.S.S. Ruchamkin, Respondent.
In the Matter of the Petition of TEXAS COMPANY, as owner of The Tanker Washington for exoneration from or limitation of liability.
Parley BRIGHT, as Administrator of the Estate of Merton Bright, Deceased, Catherine Bode, as administratrix of the Estate of Ralph J. Bode, Deceased, Barbara Allred, as administratrix of the Estate of Kenneth V. Allred, Deceased, Margaret Fulwiler, as administratrix of the Estate of John T. Fulwiler, Deceased, Libellants,
v.
TEXAS COMPANY, Respondent.
United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
January 16, 1959.
January 16, 1959.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Thomas F. McGovern, Thomas S. Schattenfield, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., A. Andrew Giangreco, and Henry St. J. FitzGerald, Asst. U. S. Attys., Alexandria, Va., for the Government.
Joseph M. Brush (Pyne, Brush, Smith & Michelsen), New York City (George C. Garbesi, New York City, on brief), Francis N. Crenshaw (Baird, Crenshaw & Lanning), Norfolk, Va., for Texas Co., William P. Woolls, Alexandria, Va., Marvin Schwartz, New York City (Betty H. Olchin and Lawrence Drasin, New York City, on brief).
United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Alexandria Division.
ALBERT V. BRYAN, District Judge.
The questions now before the court, on the remittitur holding The Texas Company also at fault, 4 Cir., 241 F.2d 819, are (a) the amount of damages to be awarded under the Death on the High Seas Act, 46 U.S.C.A. § 761, against Texas in the deaths of four of the soldiers killed aboard the U.S.S. Ruchamkin in her collision with Texas' tanker Washington; (b) whether remarriage of the soldier's widow...
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