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PETITION OF LONG

Nos. 1, 2, 3, Dockets 33248, 33249 and 33250.

439 F.2d 109 (1971)

Petition of Sumner A. LONG, Owner and Anne Quinn Corporation, Charterer, and Earl J. Smith & Co., Inc., Agent of the S/S SMITH VOYAGER, for Exoneration From or Limitation of Liability. Sumner A. Long, Anne Quinn Corporation, and Earl J. Smith & Co., Inc., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 3, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin K. Reid, New York City (Zock, Petrie, Sheneman & Reid, Howard M. McCormack, and John R. Sheneman, New York City, on the brief), for appellants Anne Quinn Corp. and Earl J. Smith & Co., Inc.

Robert E. Meshel, New York City (Baker, Nelson, Williams & Mitchell and O. Taft Nelson, New York City, on the brief), for claimant-appellee India Supply Mission.

Davis & Davis, New York City, on the brief, for appellee Anna J. Veenstra.

Abraham E. Freedman, New York City (Marvin I. Barish, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Thirty-Three Claimants-Appellees.

Burke & Parsons, Raymond J. Burke, and Thomas A. Dillon, Jr., New York City, on the brief of American Maritime Association, American Institute of Merchant Shipping, American Tramp Ship-owners Association and Committee of American Tanker Owners, as amici curiae.

Before HAYS and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and TYLER, District Judge.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The Anne Quinn Corporation, demise charterer of the steamer SMITH VOYAGER, and the vessel's agent, Earl J. Smith & Co., Inc., appeal from the denial of their petition pursuant to the Limitation of Liability Act, 46 U.S.C. § 181 et seq., for exoneration from, or limitation of, liability for the loss of life and cargo when the SMITH VOYAGER foundered and sank in the North Atlantic on December 20-27, 1964. Thirty-one members of the crew...

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