MARINE LUMBER COMPANY v. THE S.S. ALMA

No. 8112.

199 F.Supp. 719 (1961)

MARINE LUMBER COMPANY, Inc., Libellant, v. THE S.S. ALMA, her engines, tackle, etc., in rem, and Compania Nav. Campos, S.A., in personam, Respondents.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

December 18, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jett, Sykes & Coupland, Waverley L. Berkley, III, Norfolk, Va., for libellant.

Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Robert M. Hughes, III, Norfolk, Va., for respondents.


WALTER E. HOFFMAN, Chief Judge.

This controversy involves the sum of $200.00 occasioned by libellant's delivery of 5000 board feet of rough dunnage lumber to the S.S. Alma on January 24, 1958, at the port of Houston, Texas. During the period in question The Alma was operating under a time charter to Ocean Trading Corporation of Monrovia. The owners were to retain control of the navigation, maintenance and crew of the vessel, but the charterers were to exercise all...

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