ASSOCIATED METALS & MINERALS CORP. v. S.S. GEERT HOWALDT

No. 21254.

348 F.2d 457 (1965)

ASSOCIATED METALS & MINERALS CORPORATION et al., Appellants, v. S.S. GEERT HOWALDT, etc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 23, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Twitty, Sr., Thomas E. Twitty, Jr., Mobile, Ala., Hill, Rivkins, Louis & Warburton, New York City, Inge, Twitty, Duffy & Prince, Mobile, Ala., of counsel, for appellants.

Hamilton, Denniston, Butler & Riddick, Ferrill D. McRae, Mobile, Ala., for appellees Compagnie Belge D'Affretements S. P. R. L., Individually and Doing Business as Cobelfret Lines.

Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood & Roberts, John H. Tappan, Mobile, Ala., for Bernhard Howaldt Reederei.

Before WOODBURY, JONES and GEWIN, Circuit Judges.


GEWIN, Circuit Judge.

This case arises from a libel filed in the U. S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama, to recover for cargo damage to a shipment of steel from Europe to Mobile. The SS GEERT HOWALDT was in rem respondent, and Compagnie Belge D'Affretements S. P. R. L., individually and doing business as Cobelfret Lines (Cobelfret Lines) and Bernhard Howaldt Reederei were in personam respondents. During the pendency of the libel, the vessel...

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