PETITION OF UNITED STATES

Nos. 15294, 15281.

367 F.2d 505 (1966)

Petition of the UNITED STATES of America and Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability as Owners of the U.S.N.S. MISSION SAN FRANCISCO, United States of America, Appellant in No. 15294. Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., Appellant in No. 15281.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided September 12, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leavenworth Colby, Atty., Admiralty and Shipping Section, Civ. Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. (John W. Douglas, Asst. Atty. Gen., Morton Hollander, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for Mathiasen's Tanker Industries, Inc., and the United States.

Abraham E. Freedman, Freedman, Borowsky & Lorry, Philadelphia, Pa., for claimants-appellees except David Black.

William Warner, Symmers, Fish & Warner, New York City, for appellee David Black.

Before HASTIE and GANEY, Circuit Judges, and CLARY, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

HASTIE, Circuit Judge.

Our opinion today, In the Matter of the Petition of Oskar Tiedemann and Company, 367 F.2d 498, deals with appeals centering on the liability of Oskar Tiedemann & Co., the owner of the ship Elna II, as imposed by the consolidated decree in which the district court undertook to make final disposition of numerous death and personal injury claims which resulted from the collision...

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