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PETITION OF OSKAR TIEDEMANN AND COMPANY

Nos. 1764, 1765.

236 F.Supp. 895 (1964)

Petition of OSKAR TIEDEMANN AND COMPANY for exoneration from or limitation of liability, as owners of the S.S. ELNA II, and Petition of the UNITED STATES of America and Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., for exoneration from or limitation of liability as owners of the U.S.N.S. MISSION SAN FRANCISCO.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

Supplemental Opinion December 8, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Byrne, Jr., of Krusen, Evans & Byrne, Philadelphia, Pa., H. James Conaway, Jr., of Morford, Young & Conaway, Wilmington, Del., for petitioner Oskar Tiedemann & Co.

Harold G. Wilson, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Alexander Greenfeld, U. S. Atty., Wilmington, Del., for petitioner United States of America, etc.

Abraham E. Freedman, of Freedman, Borowsky & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., and Harold Leshem, of Leshem & Rubenstein, Wilmington, Del., for various claimants.

Wilfred J. Smith, Jr., of Smith & Gentile, Wilmington, Del., for Ruth Allen, claimant.

Victor F. Battaglia, of Theisen & Lank, Wilmington, Del., and William Warner, New York City, for Julius Black.

LAYTON, District Judge.

On April 14, 1960, this Court appointed a Commissioner to hear and report findings on a large number of claims for personal injuries and deaths resulting from a collision in the Delaware River on March 7, 1957, between the S. S. Mission San Francisco (Mission) and the Elna II (Elna).

The Commissioner heard and disposed of some fifty odd claims to which the following exceptions have been filed.

THE BLACK CLAIM

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