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UNITED STATES v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION

No. 24450.

397 F.2d 577 (1968)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 27, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vernol R. Jansen, Jr., U. S. Atty., Mobile, Ala., David L. Rose, Robert E. Kopp, John C. Eldridge, Howard J. Kashner, Alan S. Rosenthal, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellant.

T. K. Jackson, Jr., Mobile, Ala., W. Boyd Reeves, Mobile, Ala., Armbrecht, Jackson & DeMouy, Mobile, Ala., of counsel, for appellees.

Milton C. Grace, Washington, D. C., amicus curiae.

Before GODBOLD and SIMPSON, Circuit Judges, and McRAE, District Judge.

WILLIAM A. McRAE, Jr., District Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment entered in the court below requiring the United States to make certain contributions allegedly due as the result of a General Average Adjustment.

In August of 1959 the S.S. JEAN LA FITTE, owned by Appellee, Waterman Steamship Corporation (Waterman), was carrying government cargo under a contract with the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS). While en route the vessel became stranded...

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