PETITION OF SKIBS A/S JOLUND

No. 275, Docket 27354.

302 F.2d 114 (1962)

Petition of SKIBS A/S JOLUND, as owner of the M.S. BLACK GULL for exoneration from or limitation of liability, Petitioner-Appellee, American Smelting & Refining Company et al., Cargo Claimants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry N. Longley, New York City (John W. R. Zisgen, and Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, on the brief), for cargo claimants-appellants.

William A. Wilson, New York City (Warner Pyne, Albert Robin and Pyne, Smith & Wilson, New York City, on the brief), for petitioner-appellee.

Before MEDINA, SMITH and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


MEDINA, Circuit Judge.

At long last the litigation arising out of a fire that occurred on the Norwegian M.S. Black Gull on July 18, 1952 will come to an end with our disposition of the present appeal. Cargo claimants appeal from the part of the final decree that denies to claimants Proctor's Docket fees and Proctor's fees on depositions. The complex nature of the various proceedings is sufficiently disclosed in the prior opinions of this Court reported in 1957,

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