AMERICAN-WEST AFRICAN LINE v. SOCONY VACUUM CORP.

No. 13563.

4 F.Supp. 515 (1933)

AMERICAN-WEST AFRICAN LINE, Inc., v. SOCONY VACUUM CORPORATION et al.

District Court, E. D. New York.

August 25, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hunt, Hill & Betts, of New York City (John W. Crandall, of New York City, of counsel), for libelant.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City (Henry N. Longley and F. Herbert Prem, both of New York City, of counsel), for respondents.


CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This is a suit brought by American-West African Line, Inc., owner of the American steamship West Kebar, against the respondents herein, for contribution in general average in connection with certain losses and expenses sustained and incurred by the libelant, as a result of the collapsing of the furnaces in the vessel's center boiler in February, 1930, while she was at the port of New York.

The Vacuum Oil Company was the shipper of...

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