FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA v. MANDASK COMPANIA de VAPORES, S.A.

No. 272, Docket 29103.

342 F.2d 215 (1965)

FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA dei CONSORZI AGRARI et al., Libelants-Appellees and Appellants, v. MANDASK COMPANIA de VAPORES, S.A., Respondent-Appellant and Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1965.

Rehearing Denied March 19, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene F. Gilligan, Hill, Betts, Yamaoka, Freehill & Longcope, New York City, for respondent-appellant and appellee.

Edward L. Smith, New York City, (Kirlin, Campbell & Keating, L. de Grove Potter, Kenneth C. Butterfield, New York City, of counsel), for libelants-appellees and appellants.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and WATERMAN and HAYS, Circuit Judges.


HAYS, Circuit Judge:

The appeal and cross-appeal in this case arise from the sinking of the Steam Tanker Perama on March 18, 1957, in the Gulf of Mexico while on a voyage from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Italy. The libelants are the Italian society named, its president, and nineteen Italian underwriters. The society's cargo of soybean oil was lost with the Perama. The libelants contended that the sudden insurgence of water through the hull of the Perama and its sinking...

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