F. BADRENA E. HIJO, INC. v. THE RIO IGUAZU

No. 973.

182 F.Supp. 885 (1960)

F. BADRENA E. HIJO, INC., v. THE Steamship RIO IGUAZU, Her Engines, Boilers, Tackle, etc., and Her Owner, Flota Mercante del Estado and The United States of America (War Shipping Administration), Universal Navigation Corporation and Waterman Steamship Corporation.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

January 18, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Malcolm W. Monroe, Robert B. Deane, New Orleans, La., proctors for libelant.

Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke & Hopkins, Leon Sarpy, Donald A. Lindquist, New Orleans, La., proctors for Flota Mercante del Estado.

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, J. Barbee Winston, New Orleans, La., proctors for Waterman SS Corp.

M. Hepburn Many, U. S. Atty., Kathleen Ruddell, Asst. U. S. Atty., New Orleans, La., for the United States.


CHRISTENBERRY, Chief Judge.

This is an action for damage to a shipment of 524 bales of jerked beef carried from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Steamship Rio Iguazu, and subsequently carried from New Orleans, Louisiana, to San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the Steamship Unaco, in the year 1944. The Rio Iguazu was owned and operated by Flota Mercante del Estado, hereinafter referred to as Flota, and the...

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