CHEMICAL BANK NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, Trustee, Mortgagee,
v.
STEAMSHIP WESTHAMPTON (formerly Steamship Montauk Point), her engines, boilers, etc.
United States District Court D. Maryland.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 11, 1964.
June 11, 1964.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Ober, Williams, Grimes & Stinson, Baltimore, Md., Thacher, Proffitt, Prizer, Crawley & Wood, New York City (William A. Grimes, Baltimore, Md., and Edward C. Kalaidjian, New York City, advocates), proctors for libelant Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., Trustee.
Sol C. Berenholtz, Baltimore, Md. (Solomon Kaplan, advocate), Baltimore, Md., proctor for Trustees of Seafarers Vacation Plan, objecting intervening libelant.
Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Md. (David R. Owen and William R. Dorsey, III, advocates), Baltimore, Md., proctor for Caltex (Overseas) Limited, Texaco, Inc. (Boal, McQuade & Fitzpatrick, New York City, of counsel), and Fertex Steamship Corporation (Foley & Grainger, New York City, of counsel), objecting intervening libelants.
Thomas B. Eastman, Baltimore, Md., proctor for International Maritime Supplies Co., Ltd., objecting intervening libelant.
John H. Skeen, Jr., Baltimore, Md., proctor for The Marine Midland Trust Co. of New York, intervening libelant.
Thomas J. Kenney, U. S. Atty., Baltimore, Md. (Leavenworth Colby, Anthony W. Gross, attorneys, Dept. of Justice, and John R. Tankard, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Maritime Administration, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), amicus curiae by invitation of the court.
United States District Court D. Maryland.
THOMSEN, Chief Judge.
This libel in rem against the Steamship Westhampton, her engines, boilers, etc., was filed on January 14, 1963, by Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, Trustee (Chemical), to foreclose what purports to be a first preferred mortgage on the vessel. The validity of the mortgage was questioned initially by the owner, Seatrade Corporation (Seatrade), but its objections were withdrawn before the entry of the order of sale. The vessel was sold on March...
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