GIANNAKOUROS v. ORIENTAL TANKER CORPORATION

No. 9591.

338 F.2d 649 (1964)

Chryssoula GIANNAKOUROS, Widow and personal representative of Dimitrios Giannakouros, Deceased; Aspassia Pistolas, Widow and personal representative of John Pistolas, Deceased; Paraskevi Daoutos, Widow and personal representative of Anastassios Daoutos, Deceased; Amalia Ikonomakis, Widow and personal representative of John Panaghiotou Ikonomakis, Deceased; and Ralph Rabinowitz, Administrator of the Estates of Dimitrios Giannakouros, John Pistolas, Anastassios Daoutos, and John Panaghiotou Ikonomakis, Deceased, Appellants, v. ORIENTAL TANKER CORPORATION, S.A., as owner, operators and agents of the S.S. WORLD SKY; and Overseas Tankship Limited, as owners, operators and agents of the S.S. CALTEX LONDON, in personam, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 16, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va., for appellants.

Walter B. Martin, Jr., Norfolk, Va. (Vandeventer, Black, Meredith & Martin, Norfolk, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before HAYNSWORTH and BRYAN, Circuit Judges, and THOMSEN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

The S.S. World Sky and the S.S. Caltex London collided in the Persian Gulf. Four Greek seamen, members of the crew of the World Sky, lost their lives when the ship sank after it put to sea following temporary repairs effected in Sudan. Their widows filed these libels in Admiralty in the Eastern District of Virginia, undertaking to effect personal service upon the shipowners by service of process upon the Clerk of Virginia's State Corporation Commission...

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