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UNITED STATES v. M/V WUERTTEMBERG

Nos. 1091, 1098.

219 F.Supp. 211 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America, Libelant, v. M/V WUERTTEMBERG, Respondent. Alexander H. HOOD, Libelant, v. M/V WUERTTEMBERG, her engines, boilers, tackle, apparel and appurtenances, Respondent.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Charleston Division.

June 10, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Terrell L. Glenn, U. S. Atty., Thomas P. Simpson, Asst. U. S. Atty., Charleston, S. C., Thomas F. McGovern, Atty., Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for libelant United States.

Ben Scott Whaley and Nathaniel L. Barnwell, Charleston, S. C., for libelant Alexander H. Hood.

Harold A. Mouzon and B. Allston Moore, Jr., Charleston, S. C., for respondent, M/V Wuerttemberg, etc.

WYCHE, District Judge (sitting by designation).

An action was commenced in admiralty by the United States of America against the German motor vessel Wuerttemberg for damages done to the Swerve, a Navy minesweeper, in a collision between the German motor vessel Wuerttemberg and the United States minesweeper the Swerve, on the early morning of June 25, 1958, in the entrance to the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. A cross-libel was filed by the German owners of...

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