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OSKAR TIEDEMANN & COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 1762-1765.

172 F.Supp. 609 (1959)

OSKAR TIEDEMANN & COMPANY, Libelant, v. UNITED STATES of America and Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., Respondents. UNITED STATES of America and Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., Libelants, v. OSKAR TIEDEMANN & COMPANY, Alexander Kaare, in personam, and THE ELNA II, her engines, boilers, etc., in rem, Respondents. Petition of OSKAR TIEDEMANN & COMPANY for exoneration from or limitation of liability as owners of The Elna II. Petition of the UNITED STATES of America and Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., for exoneration from or limitation of liability as owners of THE MISSION SAN FRANCISCO.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

April 8, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Abraham E. Freedman (of Freedman, Landy & Lorry), Philadelphia, Pa., and Harold Leshem, Wilmington, Del., for various claimants.

James R. Morford, Wilmington, Del., for petitioner and libelant Tiedemann.

Leavenworth Colby, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Leonard G. Hagner, U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., for petitioner and cross-libelant United States and Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc.

LAYTON, District Judge.

The United States, one of the parties defendant, filed interrogatories directed to the plaintiffs on March 23, 1959. April 6 was the first date available for a hearing on plaintiffs' objections thereto. The trial is set for April 20.

This is an important and hard-fought case involving a collision between two ships in the Delaware River several years ago. As a result, one ship sank, a number of lives were lost, there were many injured...

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