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HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT, ETC. v. COMPAGNIE G. T.

No. 16113.

40 F.Supp. 650 (1941)

HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND v. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE.

District Court, E. D. New York.

August 27, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cravath, De Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood and Kirlin, Campbell, Hickox, Keating & McGrann, all of New York City (Roswell L. Gilpatric and Edwin S. Murphy, both of New York City, of counsel), for Royal Exchange Assurance.

Haight, Griffin, Deming & Gardner, of New York City (Donald Havens, of New York City, of counsel), for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique.

ABRUZZO, District Judge.

In November of 1940, the libellant instituted a suit in this Court by filing a libel in personam with a clause of foreign attachment. The United States Marshal for the Eastern District of New York attached the steamship Fort de France to secure libellant's alleged claim for $145,000, based upon an alleged conversion by the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. Later, the vessel was released from the custody of this Court upon the deposit by...

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