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UNITED STATES v. CARGO SALVAGE CORPORATION

228 F.Supp. 145 (1964)

UNITED STATES of America, Libelant, v. CARGO SALVAGE CORPORATION, Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 31, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for the Southern Dist. of New York, for libelant; Louis E. Greco, New York City, Thomas F. McGovern, Washington, D. C., Philip A. Berns, of counsel.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, New York City, for respondent; Richard F. Shaw, Donald M. Waesche, Jr., New York City, of counsel.

FEINBERG, District Judge.

This is a declaratory judgment action brought by the United States to determine whether it or respondent Cargo Salvage Corporation has the right to cargo aboard a wrecked vessel on the bottom of Lake Huron. For reasons indicated below, the Court concludes that the cargo belongs to respondent.

The S.S. Monrovia, a Liberian ship, with a cargo of steel,1 sank in the Lake as a result of a collision with the...

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