AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY v. CHINA UNION LINES, LTD.

No. 19617.

306 F.2d 135 (1962)

AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY; A/S A. O. Anderson & Co., Owner and Operator of M/V BEREAN; United States of America and Lucy Duncan, Appellants, v. CHINA UNION LINES, LTD., as Owner of the S.S. UNION RELIANCE, Appellee. CHINA UNION LINES, LTD., as Owner of the S.S. Union Reliance, Appellant, v. AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY, A/S A. O. Anderson & Co., Owner and Operator of M/V Berean; United States of America and Lucy Duncan, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

August 1, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Ross, J. Donald Stillwell, Houston, Tex., Bryan F. Williams, Jr., Galveston, Tex., Jack Shepherd, Asst. U. S. Atty., Houston, Tex., Donald M. Waesche, Jr., New York City, John W. Boult and Morton Hollander, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Platow & Lyon, New York City, Eastham, Watson, Dale & Forney, Houston, Tex., Robert Eikel, Houston, Tex., Edward F. Platow, New York City, Edward W. Watson, Galveston, Tex., of counsel, for China Union Lines, Ltd.

Newton M. Crain, Jr., Newton B. Schwartz, E. V. Greenwood, Joseph Newton, Houston, Tex., Preston Shirley, Galveston, Tex., Frank G. Harmon, Houston, Tex., for interested parties.

Before CAMERON, WISDOM and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

This complicated admiralty case is before us on interlocutory appeal pursuant to leave granted by this Court April 11, 1962. Eleven briefs are filed in behalf of seven parties: the United States, China Union Lines, Ltd., American Cyanamid Company, Lucy Duncan, Ben G. Sewell, Trustee, Mitsubishi International Corporation, Shinko Sangyo Trading, Ltd., and other owners of parcels of cargo aboard M/V Union Reliance and A/S A. O. Anderson &...

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