THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK

Nos. 507, 497, 498, 500, 505, 506, 508, 510.

6 F.Supp. 597 (1934)

THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK. SAMUEL SANDAY & CO. et al. v. UNITED STATES, and seven other cases.

District Court, D. Massachusetts.

March 20, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, and Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., for Samuel Sanday and others.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, and Burnham, Bingham, Gould & Murphy, of Boston, Mass., for C. Russell Walton.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, Baker, Botts, Andrews & Wharton, of Kansas City, Mo., and Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., for T. J. Brodnax and others.

Abbott, Fauntleroy, Cullen & Edwards, of St. Louis, Mo., Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, and Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., for William T. Brooking and others.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., and Rosen, Kammer, Woof & Farrar, of New Orleans, La., for H. Janssen Lumber Co.

Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., and Spencer, Gidiere, Phelps & Dunbar, of New Orleans, La., for Standard Export Lumber Co.

Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, and Burry, Johnstone, Peters & Dixon, of Chicago, Ill., for Mercantile Trading Co.

Barbour, McDavid & Barbour and F. W. Barrett, all of Springfield, Mo., Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City, and Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., for Herman J. Meyer and others.

Frederick H. Tarr, U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass. (by A. Chesley York, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Boston, Mass.), for the United States.


BREWSTER, District Judge.

These eight suits in admiralty, together with two other libels brought against the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation (hereinafter called the Fleet Corporation), were first consolidated for the single purpose of determining the question of the liability of the United States for the loss of cargoes on the City of Brunswick which stranded in Halifax Harbor in 1921. These suits came before Judge Lowell for hearing upon the...

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