NICHOLAS E. VERNICOS SHIPPING COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 423, Docket 29315.

349 F.2d 465 (1965)

NICHOLAS E. VERNICOS SHIPPING COMPANY, Limited, as Owner of THE VERNICOS MANOS, and Loucas Matsas & Sons, as Owner of THE KENTAVROS, Libelants-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip A. Berns, New York City (John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., Morton S. Hollander, Chief, Appellate Section, Civil Division, Dept. of Justice, Louis E. Greco, Atty. in Charge, New York Office, Admiralty & Shipping Section, Dept. of Justice), for the United States.

John R. Sheneman, New York City (Zock, Petrie, Sheneman & Reid, New York City), Donald M. Burke, New York City, of counsel, for libelants-appellees.

Before WATERMAN, FRIENDLY and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

The United States appeals from a judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, 223 F.Supp. 116 (1963), awarding the owners of two Greek tugs an amount equal to three months' expenses of maintenance, to wit, $24,098.70, and the crews an amount equal to three months' wages, to wit, $5,577.60, for salvage services to two store ships of the Sixth Fleet at Piraeus in 1956. In this court...

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